The ruins of stone walls, timber channel revetments, parts of a small crane and the flushing pond used to keep the inlet navigable remain. Modern aerial photographs also reveals traces of the way that the harbour's final phase of development with a railway running out across the saltmarsh to a later pier closer to the River Dee.

Event and Historical Information:
A small is pier is shown on historic charts dating to 1873. Contemporary Sailing Directions note in the vicinity '.. large smelting works, which employ many small vessels in the conveyance of lead, copper, and other ores? Formerly a passage boat crossed over everyday from Parkgate to Bagillt at high water and returned on the ebb.'

Sources include:
Admiralty, 1870, Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England from Milford Haven to the Mull of Galloway including the Isle of Man, pg124
CPAT HER refs: 37959, 37848, 104002
Historic Chart 1170B-A2, RCAHMW Digital Collections sourced from the UK Hydrographic Office
NAW Aerial Photographic Coverage 2009

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, September 2014.