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Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, CH62 5EQ.
Tel: 0151 478 4136. The Lady Lever Art Gallery has beautiful
collection of fine and decorative art. Founded in 1922. British
18th and 19th century painting, 18th century furniture. Collection
of Wedgwood and Chinese porcelain. About 6 miles north of Neston.
Ness Botanic Gardens,
Ness, Neston CH64 4AY. Tel: 0151 353 0123. The Gardens were born
of one man's passionate interest in plants, Arthur Kilpin Bulley
began to create a garden in 1898 and laid the foundations of
one of the major botanic gardens in the United Kingdom. Arthur
Bulley died in 1942, and in 1948 his daughter Lois presented
the Gardens to the University of Liverpool with an endowment
of £75,000. The only stipulation was that they be kept
as a botanic gardens as a practical and fitting tribute to the
memory of her father. www.nessgardens.org.uk. About 2 miles south
of Neston.
Wirral Country Park Visitor Centre, Station Road, Thurstaston,
Wirral, Merseyside CH61 OHN. Tel: 0151 648 4371. Wirral Country
Park is a place of contrasts. Badgers and foxes hunt the quieter
parts, birds nest in the dense hedges or feed on the berries
in winter, and there may be up to 10 kinds of butterfly in summer.
The Dee Estuary is a vital link in a chain, a fuelling station
for migrating birds like Knot, Dunlin and Oystercatcher which
fatten up here on their annual journeys around the globe. About
5 miles northwest of Neston.
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