What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Bridge Cottage Here lived the founder of Port Sunlight William Hesketh First Viscount Leverhulme in the years 1896-1897
William Hesketh Lever, later the First Viscount Leverhulme, was a prominent British businessman and philanthropist who founded Port Sunlight as a model village for his employees; he lived at Bridge Cottage from 1896 to 1897.
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Places near here
Bridge CottageListed building · 23 yd
Bridge Over the DellListed building · 57 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 491 yd
Port Sunlight MuseumMuseum · 545 yd
Leverhulme MonumentMonument or public art · 571 yd
LeverMemorial · 671 yd
Statue of AntoniusMonument or public art · 699 yd
Port Sunlight River ParkNature reserve · 1354 yd
Brotherton ParkWood · 1575 yd
St Patricks Well in Brotherton ParkOld or holy well · 1619 yd
Man-made bat cave at DibbinsdaleCave or cavern · 1.1 mi
Effluent waterfall near Job's Ferry, BromboroughWaterfall · 1.8 miOther information
Photo: Eirian Evans on Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0