Place:Port Sunlight, Cheshire, England

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Port Sunlight is a model village, suburb and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is located between Lower Bebington and New Ferry, on the east side of the Wirral Peninsula. Between 1894 and 1974 it formed part of Bebington Urban District within the county of Cheshire. At the 2001 Census, its population was 1,450.

Port Sunlight was built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory (now part of Unilever); work commenced in 1888. The name is derived from Lever Brothers' most popular brand of cleaning agent, Sunlight.

Port Sunlight contains 900 Grade II listed buildings, and was declared a Conservation Area in 1978.

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In the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974 the entire Wirral Peninsula, with the exception of the municipal borough of Ellesmere Port and urban district of Neston at the southern end, became the Metropolitan Borough of the Wirral in the new administrative county of Merseyside.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Port Sunlight.

Research Tips

• Diagram of Sanitary Districts in Cheshire showing Civil Parishes 1888 produced by the Ordnance Survey and provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• An Ordnance Survey map of Cheshire circa 1944 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time
• GENUKI references for Lower Bebington