Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight is a model village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England.

Port Sunlight is a model village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is located between Lower Bebington and New Ferry, on the Wirral Peninsula. Port Sunlight was built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory ; work commenced in 1888. The name is derived from Lever Brothers' most popular brand of cleaning agent, Sunlight.
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Worth seeing in and around Port Sunlight
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lady Lever Art Gallery
The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.
300 m · Art museum in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Prenton Park
Prenton Park is a football stadium in the area of Prenton, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It is the home ground of Tranmere Rovers Football Club since opening in 1912, and formerly the home ground of Liverpool Reserves and Liverpool Women.
3.2 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 03St Stephen's Church, Prenton
St Stephen's Church is in Prenton Lane, Prenton, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Birkenhead, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
3.4 km · grade II listed church in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Christ Church, Port Sunlight
Christ Church is in Church Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active United Reformed Church, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
200 m · church in Wirral, UK · Wikipedia - 05Christ Church, Higher Bebington
Christ Church is in King's Road, Higher Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral, North, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
1.9 km · grade II listed church in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Barnabas' Church, Bromborough
St Barnabas' Church is in the town of Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and stands within the boundary of the Bromborough Village Conservation Area.
2.6 km · church in Wirral, UK · Wikipedia - 07Dell Bridge, Port Sunlight
Dell Bridge is a footbridge in Port Sunlight, Wirral, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
300 m · Grade II listed bridge in Wirral · Wikipedia - 08St Andrew's Church, Bebington
St Andrew's Church is in the town of Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
700 m · church in Wirral, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St Paul with St Luke, Rock Ferry
The Church of St Paul with St Luke is in Old Chester Road, Tranmere, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Birkenhead, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
2.6 km · church in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Peter's Church, Rock Ferry
St Peter's Church is in St Peter's Road, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Birkenhead, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
1.8 km · grade II listed church in Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
There are over 900 Grade II listed buildings.
- 01Lady Lever Art Gallery
The art gallery shows Lady Lever's collection and modern-day artwork.
- 02Sunlight Soap Museum
Displays of vintage soap packaging, and Ringo Starr’s first performance with the Beatles in the village in 1962.
- 03Hulme Hall
Grade II listed community centre hosting occassional public events.
- 04Dell Bridge
Grade II listed stone footbridge built in 1894.
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Things to do
- 01Gladstone Theatre
Go swimming at the Oval Sports Centre The Lodge Old Chester Road Bebington CH63 7LH.
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Where to eat
- 01Lady Lever Dining Rooms
- 02Tudor Rose Tea Rooms
88A Greendale Rd,.
- 03Gorge 'Us
7 Church Road, Bebington, CH63 7PG,.
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Getting to Port Sunlight
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 10 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 105 km
- Stations
- Bebington railway station, 700 m · Spital railway station, 1.4 km · Bromborough railway station, 3.5 km · Bromborough Rake railway station, 2.6 km · Port Sunlight railway station, 400 m
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Port Sunlight52 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Port Sunlight108 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £11–15
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Port Sunlight131 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Port Sunlight
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Port Sunlight. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBuses 38 (Bromborough–West Kirby), 410 (Clatterbridge–New Brighton), 418 (Beechwood–New Ferry) and 464 (Liverpool–New Ferry) stop near Bebington station on the Bebington Road or Old Chester Road.
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Next door to Port Sunlight
Port Sunlight is 5 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Birkenheadtown in Merseyside, England3.6 km
- Bebingtontown and unparished area within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England500 m
- Bromboroughvillage within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside2.3 km
- Dingledistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England3.6 km
- Tranmeresuburb of Birkenhead, Merseyside, UK3.2 km
- Prentonarea of Birkenhead, Wirral, UK3.4 km