We spent a day wandering around Ellesmere and its nearby lakes (meres). I had assumed that a canal connects the town to the more famous Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire on the Mersey (a bit like Bruge and Zeebrugge in Belgium), but I am wrong. Apparently there was an Ellesmere canal which started from the Mersea but was never completed and never came anywhere near Shropshire.