Wapping Dock

{{Short description|Dock on the River Mersey, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox docks | name = Wapping Dock | image = Wapping Warehouse 2.jpg | caption = Warehouse at Wapping Dock | location = Liverpool, England | coordinates = {{coord|53.3971|-2.9874|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}} | grid_ref_UK = SJ344893 | owner = Canal & River Trust<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/11495-liverpool-canal-link-revised-skippers-guide-august-2015.pdf|title=Liverpool Canal Link Skipper's Guide|work=Canal & River Trust|page=2|date=August 2015|access-date=28 August 2016|archive-date=10 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910205556/https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/11495-liverpool-canal-link-revised-skippers-guide-august-2015.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> | opened = 1852 | type = Wet dock | joins = {{ubl|Queen's Dock|Wapping Basin to Salthouse Dock}} | area = {{convert|5|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|499|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}}<ref name="Baines1859-2-100">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 100}}</ref> | width_entrance = {{convert|50|ft|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Baines1859-2-117">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 117}}</ref> | quay_length = {{convert|1815|yd|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Baines1859-2-100" /> }}

thumb|right|Hydraulic Tower and Gate Keepers Lodge '''Wapping Dock''' is a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the north and Queen's Dock to the south. King's Dock was originally located to the west, but has since been filled in.

==History== The dock was opened in 1852. It was named after the road it runs alongside and which also gave its name to the Wapping Tunnel.

The large brick warehouse built in 1856 along the eastern side of the dock was designed by Jesse Hartley. The building is of a similar architectural style to the warehouses surrounding the nearby Albert Dock. When originally built, it was {{convert|232|m|yd|abbr=on}} long and consisted of five separate sections.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com/visitingthewhs/areas/albertdock/basinandwarehouse.asp |title=Wapping basin and warehouse |website=Liverpool World Heritage |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828040917/http://www.liverpoolworldheritage.com/visitingthewhs/areas/albertdock/basinandwarehouse.asp |archive-date=28 August 2008}}</ref> Bombed in the May Blitz of 1941, the badly damaged southernmost section was not rebuilt, with only the supporting cast iron columns remaining in situ.<ref name=worldheritagebid>{{cite web |url=http://www.run.liverpool.gov.uk/albertdock.asp |title=Albert Dock Conservation Area |website=Liverpool World Heritage |access-date=6 July 2009}}</ref> The remainder of the building continued in commercial use, even after the dock closed in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history11.html |title=Trading Places: Wapping Dock |website=Liverpool Museums |access-date=6 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627110624/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history11.html |archive-date=27 June 2009}}</ref> The warehouse was restored and converted into residential apartments in 1988 and is Grade II* listed.<ref name=worldheritagebid /><ref>{{NHLE |num=1218449 |desc=Former warehouse at Wapping Dock |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

===Sources=== *{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/liverpoolin185900bain|title=Liverpool in 1859|first=Thomas|last=Baines|year=1859|publisher=Longman & Co.|location=London|oclc=43484994}}

==Further reading== *{{cite book|title=Give a Dock a Good Name?|first1=Ken|last1=McCarron|first2=Adrian|last2=Jarvis|publisher=Merseyside Port Folios|location=Birkenhead|year=1992|pages=101–102|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}}

==External links== {{commonscat|Wapping Dock, Liverpool}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm|title=Liverpool South Docks diagram|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107034039/http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm|archive-date=7 January 2009}} * [http://www.multimap.com/maps/?mapType=aerial&zoom=17&countryCode=GB&lat=53.40136187895&lon=-2.98761939296321#map=53.39738,-2.98468|17|32&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:53.39722:-2.98748:17 Wapping Dock aerial photo]

Category:Liverpool docks Category:Grade II listed buildings in Liverpool