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Thornton Hough

Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of WirralUse British English from March 2021
Post Office, Thornton Hough geograph.org.uk 1411158
Post Office, Thornton Hough geograph.org.uk 1411158

Thornton Hough () is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in Merseyside, England, of pre-Conquest origins. The village grew during the ownership of Joseph Hirst into a small model village and was later acquired by William Lever, founder of Lever Brothers, the predecessor of Unilever. Thornton Hough is roughly 10 miles (16 km) from Liverpool and 12 miles (19 km) from Chester. Administratively, it is part of the Clatterbridge Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and is in the parliamentary constituency of Wirral South. At the 2001 census, Thornton Hough had 770 inhabitants.

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N 53.322 ° E -3.047 °
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CH63 1JB Wirral
England, United Kingdom
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Post Office, Thornton Hough geograph.org.uk 1411158
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