Quote Originally Posted by snappel View Post
Probably because Manchester was another important industrial town, and Liverpool was the nearest port supplying Manchester with the goods it needed. It would be interesting to find out more about dock names, although a lot of them are self-explanatory or easily researched, such as Huskisson, Canada, Gladstone, etc.
Ken McCarron and Adrian Jarvis have done a book, Give A Dock A Good Name, which traces the origins of each of Liverpool's docks and also the reasons behind their names.