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Filming in Port Sunlight

An iconic location for your filming project

With its time capsule feel, beautiful architecture and green spaces, Port Sunlight is an ideal and popular film location, not far from Liverpool and Chester. This iconic industrial worker village is suitable for everything from drama series to blockbuster movies and short films to music videos. The village covers 130 acres and includes 900 Grade II houses representing nearly every period of British architecture, all set within picturesque landscaped gardens and parkland.

Interior locations include an Edwardian worker’s cottage, industrial-style historic buildings, a working theatre, Victorian schoolroom, a classical art gallery, Gothic Revival church, to name a few.

To make an enquiry, please complete an application form and send by email to [email protected].

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From Peaky Blinders to Antique Roadshow…

What’s been filmed here?

We have welcomed TV crews from Michael Portillo’s Great British Railways Journeys, Antiques Roadshow, Flog it!, Songs of Praise, Grand Designs: The Streets, and more.

Port Sunlight has also welcomed larger film crews for feature length television programmes and films including the Oscar winning Chariots of Fire (1981), award winning TV series Peaky Blinders (2013-21), the biopic of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien (2019), and Bolan’s Shoes (2023).

2024’s Midas Man, a biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, was partly filmed at Bridge Cottage, Hulme Hall and other village locations.

Where is Port Sunlight?

Port Sunlight is in Wirral in the North West of the UK. Located just 6 miles from Liverpool city centre and 16 miles from Chester, Port Sunlight is easily reached by road and rail. Port Sunlight and Bebington train stations are located in the village offering regular Merseyrail services between Liverpool and Chester.

There are several places to park, some public street parking (Wirral Council) and other spaces owned by Port Sunlight Village Trust. The roads in Port Sunlight are wide and can accommodate large vehicles, which is unusual for a heritage site.

Interested in filming in Port Sunlight?

To discuss filming opportunities in the village, please contact Brian Pilkington, Marketing and Communications Manager, by email to [email protected] or call 0151 644 4800.