WWT Martin Mere
WWT Martin Mere is a wetland nature reserve and wildfowl collection managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Tarlscough, Burscough, Lancashire, England, on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, 6 miles from Ormskirk and 10 miles from Southport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Corsini, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
April 1st—October 28th: 9:30 AM—6:00 PM
October 29th—March 31st: 9:30 AM—4:30 PM
December 25th: closed - Email: info.martinmere@wwt.org.uk
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: nature reserve in the United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Martin Mere” and “Martin Mere Wetland Centre”
- Address: Fish Lane, Burscough, L40 0TA
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Lane railway station and Burscough Bridge railway station.
New Lane railway station
Railway station
Photo: Small-town hero, Public domain.
New Lane railway station serves the town of Burscough in West Lancashire, in England. It is served and managed by Northern Trains and is situated near the Martin Mere bird sanctuary, which can be reached by a 1-mile walk.
Burscough Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Small-town hero, Public domain.
Burscough Bridge railway station is one of two railway stations which serve the town of Burscough in Lancashire, England. It lies on the Manchester-Southport Line, operated and managed by Northern Trains.
St John the Baptist Church, Burscough
Church
Photo: Small-town hero, Public domain.
St John the Baptist Church is in Liverpool Road North, Burscough, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lathom and Hoscar.
Lathom
Village
Photo: Doug Elliot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lathom is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, near Skelmersdale, about 3 miles east of Ormskirk. It is in the district of West Lancashire, and with the parish of Newburgh forms part of Newburgh ward.
Hoscar
Village
Photo: Gary Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoscar is a small village in Lancashire, England. It is located 1¼ miles east of the larger village of Burscough.
Sollom
Hamlet
Photo: Small-town hero, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sollom is a hamlet in the parish of Tarleton, in Lancashire, England. It lies south of Tarleton and north of Rufford on the A59 road, giving the village good links to Preston, Southport and Liverpool.
WWT Martin Mere
Latitude
53.61974° or 53° 37′ 11″ northLongitude
-2.86602° or 2° 51′ 58″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Operator
Wildfowl & Wetlands TrustOpen location code
9C5VJ49M+VHOpenStreetMap ID
way 23030226OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Welsh—“WWT Martin Mere” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “دبليو دبليو تى مارتن مير”
- Spanish: “WWT Martin Mere”
- Welsh: “Gwarchodfa Natur Martin Mere”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “WWT Martin Mere”. Photo: Tony Corsini, CC BY-SA 3.0.