Out of the last-mentioned branch, near the village of Hordley, a collateral cut proceeds by Bagley and Shire Oak, to Weston Wharf; near Weston Lullingfield, where it terminates. The total length of the main line from Ellesmere Port to the Montgomeryshire Canal, is sixty-one miles; viz, from the first-mentioned place, to the cut which connects with the Dee at the city of Chester, is eight miles and three quarters, with a rise, from low water mark in the Mersey at Liverpool, of 46 feet, which rise takes place at its commencement, from whence it is level to Chester. From Chester to the Hurleston Locks, and where the Nantwich Branch proceeds from it, is fifteen miles and three quarters, with a rise of 131 feet, by means of eleven locks, five of which are within a mile of Chester. The branch to meet the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal is two miles in length, and level. The main line from the Hurleston Locks to Francton Common is twenty-five miles, with a rise of 115 feet. The branch to Edstaston Wharf from The Cottage, upon this part of the main line, is nearly three miles in length. The branch towards the town of Ellesmere is about a furlong in length only. From Francton Common it is eleven miles and a half to its termination in the Montgomeryshire Canal, with a fall of 52 feet. The branch to the Ruabon Brook Railway, near the Pont-y-Cysylte Aqueduct is little more than eleven miles, with a rise of 13 feet.
The railway which proceeds from the end of the canal at Cysylte, through an extensive coal field to Ruabon Brook, in the county of Denbigh, is three miles and a quarter; and the navigable feeder, which comes from the Dee at Llantysilio, and falls into this canal at the aqueduct above-mentioned, is nearly six miles in length; and the branch from near Hordley to Weston Wharf, is five miles and a half in length. The branch from Wardle Green to join the Grand Trunk Canal at Middlewich, takes a westwardly course by Cholmondeston Hall, and across the River Weaver, near Wades Green; thence northwardly, and runs in a parallel course on the east side of that river, by Minshull Vernon and Lea Hall; thence eastwardly to the south side of the town of Middlewich, where it forms the junction above-mentioned. Its length is nearly ten miles, with a fall to the Grand Trunk of 44 feet 4 inches, by four locks.
