Knotts Hole, Mersey shore, Dingle, Toxteth, Liverpool

Mersey shore - Dingle Shore and Knotts Hole
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The section from the southern end of the Herculaneum dock and shore, around Dingle Point to Knotts Hole and beyond. At the end of the Herculaneum Dock the shore became rocky, giving way to low sandstone cliffs. These form Dingle Point and finish around Knotts Hole, which was the exit of the Dingle Stream into the Mersey. A beach started after these Keuper Sandstone outcrops at Dingle Head and Knotts hole gave way to the softer Bunter beds which formed the Mersey shore towards Fulwood and Garston.

The is The Cast Iron Shore : There are many theories as to the derivation of the name, but that which rings most true, is the one based on the nearby houses, and Church, of St Michael's Hamlet, which John Cragg constructed using as much Iron as possible in their framework and fabrication.
An alternative theory falls foul of fact - it has been said that the name arose as this shore was used as the dumping ground for Iron slag from the Mersey forge. It makes little sense to me that slag should be transported from the Mersey Forge for dumping, when this could effectively have been done adjacent to the foundry.
We will probably never know for sure, the name is there as a memory only as the shore is buried under refuse, rubble, dredgings, excavations and housing.

Knotts Hole 1800s

Dingle point 1900

Dingle point 1984

Dingle rocks 2006

Dingle rocks 1905

Knotts Hole 1905

Knotts Hole 1988

from the Dingle oil jetty looking south

Records and History courtesy of Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries. Visit Liverpool Libraries online catalogues at http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk

The section from the southern end of the Herculaneum dock and shore, around Dingle Point to Knotts Hole and beyond. At the end of the Herculaneum Dock the shore became rocky, giving way to low sandstone cliffs. These form Dingle Point and finish around Knotts Hole, which was the exit of the Dingle Stream into the Mersey. A beach started after these Keuper Sandstone outcrops at Dingle Head and Knotts hole gave way to the softer Bunter beds which formed the Mersey shore towards Fulwood and Garston. The is The Cast Iron Shore : There are many theories as to the derivation of the name, but that which rings most true, is the one based on the nearby houses, and Church, of St Michael's Hamlet, which John Cragg constructed using as much Iron as possible in their framework and fabrication. An alternative theory falls foul of fact - it has been said that the name arose as this shore was used as the dumping ground for Iron slag from the Mersey forge. It makes little sense to me that slag should be transported from the Mersey Forge for dumping, when this could effectively have been done adjacent to the foundry. We will probably never know for sure, the name is there as a memory only as the shore is buried under refuse, rubble, dredgings, excavations and housing.

Knotts Hole 1800s	Dingle point 1900	Dingle point 1984	Dingle rocks 2006	Dingle rocks 1905	Knotts Hole 1905	Knotts Hole 1988

from the Dingle oil jetty looking south
Records and History courtesy of Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries. Visit Liverpool Libraries online catalogues at http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk