Mount Pleasant, Liverpool

Mount Pleasant, Liverpool
Part of Mount Pleasant from above
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool is located in Liverpool
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool
LocationKnowledge Quarter, Liverpool city centre
Postal codeL3
Coordinates53°24′14″N 2°58′19″W / 53.40379°N 2.97197°W / 53.40379; -2.97197
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Mount Pleasant is a street in Liverpool city centre. It is towards one end of Hope Street, and is the location of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

It is situated on the site of one of the hills which surrounded the village of Liverpool before it expanded to be one of the United Kingdom's major cities.

William Roscoe, the historian was born in Mount Pleasant in 1753. See The House in which Roscoe was Born., painted by Samuel Austin.[1]

  1. ^ Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1831). "picture". Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832. Fisher, Son & Co.Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (1831). "poetical illustration". Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832. Fisher, Son & Co.