A picturesque town with more than 900 Grade II listed houses and public buildings, Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by the industrialist William Lever as a self-contained community for his soap factory workers.
The village today is an immaculately preserved example of early town planning. A prototypical garden city, Port Sunlight’s manicured gardens and parklands offer abundant green space for the village’s residents and visitors, while cultural institutions like the Lady Lever Art Gallery and The Gladstone Theatre provide access to the arts.
With just 2,000 residents, Port Sunlight is home to a small but thriving community
Port Sunlight Village Trust’s Landscape Supervisor describes the immaculately maintained gardens that form an integral part of community life in Port Sunlight. In other interviews, a conscientious resident starts a local litter-picking group, and the River Park Ranger describes native wildlife on the site of the original Lever Brothers’ dock.
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