Catalogue description LEVERHULME ESTATE

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of D 5232
Reference: D 5232
Title: LEVERHULME ESTATE
Description:

Title deeds and related papers of parts of the estates in Thornton Hough, Poulton-cum-Spital, Storeton, Bebington and Tranmere.
Date: 1677-20th C
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Leverhulme Estate
Physical description: 11 Series
Subjects:
  • Lever family, Viscounts Leverhulme
  • Thornton Hough, Cheshire
  • Storeton, Cheshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The estate was assembled by purchase by William Hesketh Lever between 1888 and 1911. It comprised 2 main blocks of property:-

 

a. The Manor of Thornton Hough and other premises in Thornton Hough which were parts of the Mostyn estate in Neston, put up for sale by auction in 1849;

 

b. The Storeton estate originally part of the Massey family estate, acquired by Sir Thomas Brocklebank, and purchased by Lever after the former's death in 1911.
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