The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge

The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge is in Woolston, Warrington, England. The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge is situated nearby to Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve No. 1 Bed, as well as near the grassland Woolston Interchange.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Woolston Eyes and Thelwall Viaduct.

Woolston Eyes

Nature reserve

Photo: Pigsonthewing, CC BY 3.0.

Woolston Eyes is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located in the town of Warrington, England, alongside the Manchester Ship Canal. The eyes themselves are used for the deposition of dredgings from the Ship Canal under a Waste Management Licence issued by the Environment Agency.

Thelwall Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Thelwall Viaduct is the name given to a pair of steel composite girder viaducts in Lymm, Warrington, England. They carry the M6 motorway across the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey. Thelwall Viaduct is situated 3,900 feet southwest of The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge.

The Church of St Peter

Church

Photo: Outwivcamera, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Church of St Peter is situated 1 mile west of The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Martinscroft and Lymm.

Martinscroft

Quarter

Woolston is a settlement and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington in the county of Cheshire, England. Formerly a township called 'Woolston with Martinscroft' within the parish of Warrington, there are two main settlements: Woolston to the west and Martinscroft to the east.

Lymm

Photo: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0.

Lymm is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, North West England, now in the Borough of Warrington. It incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rush Green and Statham.

Thelwall

Suburb

Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.

Thelwall is a suburban village in the civil parish of Grappenhall and Thelwall, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is close to the Lymm junction of the M6 motorway. Thelwall is situated 1½ miles southwest of The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge.

The River Mersey Fish and Wildlife Refuge

Type: Sign
Categories: information and tourism
Location: Woolston, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.39839° or 53° 23′ 54″ north

Longitude

-2.49807° or 2° 29′ 53″ west

Open location code

9C5V9GX2+9Q

OpenStreetMap ID

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OpenStreetMap feature

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Highlights include River Mersey and Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve No. 1 Bed.

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