Bromborough Pool, also known as Bromborough Pool Village and Price's Village, is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England, to the north of Bromborough. It is situated on the Wirral Peninsula, to the south of Bebington and to the north of Eastham.
Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the urban district of Bebington, within the county of Cheshire.
Bromborough Pool was developed from 1853–58 as a "model village" for the workers at the factory of Price's Patent Candle Company. [1]
The completed village comprised 142 houses with a church, school, institute, shop and library for Price's workforce.
It predates the nearby model village of Port Sunlight just to its north, started in the 1880s.
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Bromborough Pool is a village in Wirral, Merseyside, England. It contains 17 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are listed at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". Bromborough Pool is an early model village, built for the workers at the factory of Price's Patent Candle Company. All the listed buildings were constructed for the company; most of them are workers' houses, the others being an office building, the village hall, and the church.
St Matthew's Church is in York Street, Bromborough Pool, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It was originally a non-denominational chapel for the workers at the nearby candle factory, and later became an Anglican church, but it closed for worship in 2007. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Bebington was a local government district on the Wirral Peninsula, in Cheshire, England.
The Birkenhead Built-up area is an urban area in England, which covers the towns of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington and Ellesmere Port in both Merseyside and Cheshire. It is defined for certain statistical purposes by NOMIS, within the Office of National Statistics. The area is partly within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, and partly within the Cheshire West and Chester local authority. The definition includes suburbs in the eastern part of the Wirral Peninsula physically contiguous with the main urban areas, but not physically separate towns and villages. The area was originally within the historic county of Cheshire.
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