Sefton Park & Palm House
Sefton Park & Palm House features on the Gingerguide audio walk through Liverpool. Give it roughly ~45 min: enough to look, hear a two to three minute story on the spot, and ask the AI guide whatever the story leaves open.
- Type park
- Suggested visit ~45 min
- Liverpool Liverpool guide
About Sefton Park & Palm House
A 235-acre Victorian park in south Liverpool, opened in 1872, centred on a boating lake and the restored three-tier Palm House glasshouse of 1896, ringed by statues.
Sefton Park is a large Victorian public park in south Liverpool, opened in 1872 and covering about 235 acres. It was laid out following a design competition by the French landscape architect Edouard Andre with the local architect Lewis Hornblower, and is registered Grade I on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Its features include a boating lake, an iron bridge of 1873, a Shaftesbury memorial fountain with a statue of Anteros unveiled in 1932, and a Grade II listed Peter Pan statue by Sir George Frampton.
The Palm House is a three-tier domed glasshouse that opened in 1896, funded by a 10,000 pound gift from the Liverpool millionaire Henry Yates Thompson and built by Mackenzie & Moncur of Edinburgh. Grade II* listed and ringed by statues of explorers and botanists, it was closed in the 1980s on safety grounds, partly reopened in 1993 and fully restored and reopened in 2001.
Did you know? The Palm House was paid for by a ten thousand pound gift from the Liverpool millionaire Henry Yates Thompson, and built by the Edinburgh firm Mackenzie & Moncur; it opened in 1896.
How long is a visit to Sefton Park & Palm House?
Set aside roughly ~45 min for Sefton Park & Palm House. That covers a good look and the narrated story, and because you set the pace you can always stay on.
Is Sefton Park & Palm House worth your time?
Sefton Park & Palm House is among the 13 narrated highlights the Gingerguide team chose for Liverpool, so it is worth a look. Hear the story for the context, then ask the AI guide for anything more.
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