Big Wood
Big Wood is a forest in High Legh, Cheshire East, England. Big Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Sworton Heath, as well as near Rowlinson’s Green.Places of Interest
Highlights include Lymm Dam and St John’s Church, High Legh.
Lymm Dam
Park
Photo: Richard Cooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lymm Dam is the name of a dam and lake in Lymm, Cheshire, England, an inset village in the greenbelt around Warrington. It was created in 1824 by a dam built during the construction of what is now the A56 road, when local inhabitants objected to initial plans for a route through the village centre.
St John’s Church, High Legh
Church
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's Church is an active Anglican parish church in the village of High Legh, Cheshire, England. It is in the deanery of Knutsford, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the diocese of Chester.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
St Mary's Church is the Anglican parish church of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, standing on a bank overlooking Lymm Dam. It is a grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lymm and Grappenhall.
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.
Grappenhall
Suburb
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
Grappenhall is a village within the civil parish of Grappenhall and Thelwall in the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England. The parish had a population of 9,377 at the 2001 census, 9,687 at the 2011 census, and 9,651 at the 2021 census.
Appleton Thorn
Village
Photo: S Parish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Appleton Thorn is a village in the borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England. Appleton appeared in the Domesday survey as Epeltune, meaning "the tun where the apples grew".
Big Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: High Legh, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.3606° or 53° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.4786° or 2° 28′ 43″ westOpen location code
9C5V9G6C+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 9117551651OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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