MARYPORT  , a

market town and seaport in the Cockermouth parliamentary division of Cumberland, England, 25 M . W.S.W. of Carlisle, on the Maryport & Carlisle railway . Pop. of urban district (1901), 11,897 . It is irregularly built on the shore of the Irish Sea and on the cliffs above, at the mouth of the river Ellen . Until 1750 there were only a few huts here, the spot being called Ellenioot, but at this time the harbour was built by Humphrey Senhouse . In 1892 Maryport became an independent port with Workington, Whitehaven and Millom subordinate to it . Coal and pig-iron are exported from the mining district inland, and shipbuilding is carried on . There are also rope and sail works, iron-foundries, saw-mills, breweries and tanneries . On the hill north of the town there is a Roman fort which guarded the coast, and many remains of this period have been discovered . The fort was called Uxellodunum .