Home › Entities › Main Stem › River Mersey

River Mersey

river in England
River Main Stem Q19724
River Mersey
Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

13 properties

Identity

Instance of
main stem
Native label
River Mersey[30]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 53.414°, -2.157°, 🗺️ 53.452°, -3.040°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester[2][3][4]

Population and size

Length
+112[31]
More facts +7
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
Historic county
Cheshire[34]
KML file
Template:Attached KML/River Mersey[33]
Mouth of the watercourse
Irish Sea[6]
Replaced by
Manchester Ship Canal, Causeway Park, New Cut Canal[27][28][29]
Tributary
River Goyt, River Weaver, River Tame, River Gowy, Glaze Brook, Micker Brook, Old Garston River, River Jordan, River Irwell, Sankey Brook, Woolston Brook, Ditton Brook, River Bollin[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Watershed area
+4680[32]
🏷️ Also known as
en River Mersey en Mersey ar نهر ميرسي ar نهر المرزي ar نهر مرزي el ποταμός Μέρζι el Μέρζι es rio Mersey es río Mersey fa رود مرزی he מרזי id Sungai Mersey ja マージー川 ja マージ―川 ko 머지강 ru Мерси th แม่น้ำเมอร์ซีย์ tr Mersey Nehri uk Мерсі vi Sông Mersey
🔖 Identifiers · 21
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85083887
GND ID
4298505-5
BBC Things ID
4913fe85-3879-4a8c-9c16-99e0f0c9f59a
BabelNet ID
00902626n
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
43831
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/River-Mersey-England
Freebase ID
/m/01660_
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2602921
GeoNames ID
2642715
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1127090
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
mersey
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0042124
Show all 21 identifiers +9
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Mersey
Harper's tag
mersey-river-england
J9U entity ID
987007565659005171
Lex ID
Mersey
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3224166
Quora topic ID
Mersey-river, Mersey
Topic's main category
Category:River Mersey
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
12531
Yale LUX ID
place/fe223eae-da19-4579-8afd-3f9eb7bc9d71
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

⛏️ Lake Facts · open-dataset statements via 4ort-mint

From open datasets, joined by identifier and shown only for properties Wikidata does not state on this entity — except where the dataset is the registry authority for the fact (ClinicalTrials.gov on trial registration data): there its value is shown instead, with Wikidata's noted beside it. Every row carries its dataset edition and licence.

Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 H/STM · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Tributary 5
River Irwell, River Goyt, River Tame, River Weaver, River Bollin
← Crosses 5
Mersey Gateway Bridge, Silver Jubilee Bridge, Queensway Tunnel, Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge, Warrington Transporter Bridge
Described by source 4
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
← Located in or next to body of water 4
Liverpool, Runcorn, Wirral, Wirral Peninsula
← Mouth of the watercourse 4
River Irwell, River Goyt, River Tame, River Weaver
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside
Continent 1
Europe
Country 1
United Kingdom
Instance of 1
main stem
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Irish Sea
Replaced by 1
Manchester Ship Canal
Topic's main category 1
Category:River Mersey
← Category's main topic 1
Category:River Mersey
← Inflows 1
Irish Sea
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Pier Head
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

The River Mersey is located in Merseyside, in the United Kingdom, on the continent of Europe.

Related Entities

Liverpool United Kingdom

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). River Mersey. Retrieved November 9, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/river-mersey
MLA “River Mersey.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 9 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/river-mersey.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_river-mersey_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{River Mersey}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/river-mersey}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-09}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): River Mersey — https://4ort.xyz/entity/river-mersey (retrieved 2026-11-09)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/river-mersey · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BBC Things ID → 4913fe85-3879-4a8c-9c16-99e0f0c9f59a
    "Created claim: BBC Things ID: 4913fe85-3879-4a8c-9c16-99e0f0c9f59a, Adding BBC Things ID"
  2. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 4298505-5
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  3. 10w ago · Geagea · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    J9U entity ID → 987007565659005171
    "Created claim: J9U entity ID: 987007565659005171, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1788284458440; updating from the National Library of Israel database based on LC"
  4. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester
    Category for the view of the item → Category:Views of Royal Albert Dock from the Mersey
    Watershed area → 4,680 square kilometre
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: mersey-river-england, Matched to mersey river england (#289948554) in…"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.