Chat Moss

Chat Moss is a large area of peat bog that makes up part of the City of Salford, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Irlam railway station and Glazebrook railway station.

Irlam railway station

Railway station

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Irlam railway station in Irlam, Greater Manchester, England, is 8+3⁄4 miles west of Manchester Oxford Road on the Manchester to Liverpool Line, and is operated by Northern Trains.

Glazebrook railway station

Railway station

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Glazebrook railway station serves the villages in the civil parish of Rixton-with-Glazebrook in the Warrington unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Glazebrook railway station is situated 1½ miles south of Chat Moss.

St John’s

Church

Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John’s is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Irlam and Cadishead.

Irlam

Town

Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Irlam is a suburb in the City of Salford, Manchester, England. In 2011, it had a population of 19,933. It lies on flat ground on the south side of the M62 motorway and the north bank of the Manchester Ship Canal, 6.7 miles southwest of Salford, 7.6 miles southwest of Manchester and 8.3 miles northeast of Warrington.

Cadishead

Village

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Cadishead is a village in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, with a 2014 population of 10,739, situated within the historic county of Lancashire. Cadishead is situated 1½ miles south of Chat Moss.

Glazebrook

Village

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Rixton-with-Glazebrook is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Formerly within the historic county of Lancashire, it lies to the east of Warrington and is largely farmland. Glazebrook is situated 2 miles south of Chat Moss.

Chat Moss

Type: Bog
Description: peat bog in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England
Categories: bog and body of water
Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.45° or 53° 27′ north

Longitude

-2.45° or 2° 27′ west

Elevation

79 feet (24 metres)

Open location code

9C5VCHX2+X2

GeoNames ID

2653301

Wikidata ID

Q1890600

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Chat Moss” goes by many names.

Armenian: “Չաթ Մոս”
Cebuano: “Chat Moss”
Chinese: “查特泥沼”
Hungarian: “Chat Moss”
Persian: “چت ماس”
Spanish: “Chat Moss”
Swedish: “Chat Moss”
Welsh: “Chat Moss”

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