The Weston Canal was a cut made by the Proprietors of the Weaver Navigation under authority granted in an Act of Parliament in 1825. The cut was made to open a "more convenient Communication between the said River near Frodsham Bridge and the River Mersey near Weston Point". (Priestley p668) . The proprietors also constructed a basin at Weston Point. The new cut left the main river to the south east of Frodsham, from where it was about 4 miles to Weston Point Docks.
By 1850 a second basin ("New Basin") had been constructed parallel to "Old Basin" at Weston Point, and by the end of the 19th Century two more basins had been dug to the North - Church Cut and Delamere Dock.
Bradshaw did actually name the cut the 'Weston Canal', and by then the Manchester Canal had been constructed. The MSC approached Weston Point Docks from the north, so the docks became the junction of the MSC and the Weaver Navigation through the Weston Canal.
By 1911 old maps show that Church Cut had been renamed Tollemache Dock, with a swing bridge over the southern entrance channel. The same maps show two swing bridges over the southern entrance channel from the Weston Canal to New Basin, and a fourth swing bridge over the entrance to the Runcorn and Weston Canal to the south of Old and New Basins.
