Known now for the fishing and as one end of the Manchester Slave Trail, Ancarrow’s Landing takes its name as the former site of Newton Ancarrow’s old speedboat-manufacturing factory.

The founding of Ancarrow Marine is surrounded in lore that suits the the beauty of the fast&expensive machines themselves:

Popular boating said he wanted to buy a fast boat, and for the seller to guarantee it’s speed. When no guarantees were made to back up the sellers boasts, it was recommended to Newton that he should build one himself if he thought he could do any better. He decided to show them up and did just that.

Ancarrow’s later influential efforts as a pioneering environmental activist are described in Ann Woodlief’s In River Time - The Way of the James and in Harry Kollatz’ True Richmond Stories.