Editing Lancaster, Lancashire (section)

===18th-century port===
Many of the city's central buildings, including those lining St George's Quay date from the 18th century, as the [[Port of Lancaster]] became one of the UK's busiest and the [[Lancaster slave trade]] was the fourth most important in the UK [[History of slavery|slave trade]].<ref name=EB1911/> Among prominent Lancaster slavers were [[Dodshon Foster]],<ref>{{Cite book |author=Andrew White |title=Lancaster: A History |publisher=Phillimore & Co. |year=2003}} p. 63.</ref> [[Thomas Hinde (senior)|Thomas Hinde]] and his namesake son.<ref name="Schofield">{{Cite journal |last1=Schofield |first1=M. M. |title=The Slave Trade from Lancashire and Cheshire ports outside Liverpool c 1750-1790 |journal=Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire |date=1976 |volume=126 |pages=30–72 |url=https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/126-3-Schofield.pdf |access-date=12 May 2021 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511211213/https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/126-3-Schofield.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> The last slave ship to be constructed in Lancaster was the 267-tonne ''Trafalgar'', built in 1806 at Brockbank’s shipyard for Samuel Hinderland and William Hinde.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Last Slave Ship Built in Lancaster |url=https://lbsatucl.wordpress.com/2022/08/15/the-last-slave-ship-built-in-lancaster/ |website=Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery |access-date=19 July 2023 |language=en |date=15 August 2022}}</ref> Lancaster's role as a major port diminished as the river began to silt up<ref name=timeline/> and [[Morecambe]], [[Glasson Dock]] and [[Sunderland Point]] became preeminent for brief periods. [[Heysham Port]] has now eclipsed all others on the Lune.