Moss Head

Moss Head is a forest in Rixton-with-Glazebrook, Warrington, England. Moss Head is situated nearby to the locality Rixton, as well as near the village Hollins Green.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birchwood railway station and Rixton Clay Pits.

Birchwood railway station

Railway station

Photo: andy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birchwood railway station is a railway station serving the town of Birchwood, Cheshire, England. The station is 24+1⁄4 miles east of Liverpool Lime Street and 13+1⁄4 miles west of Manchester Piccadilly on the Liverpool-Manchester line.

Rixton Clay Pits

Nature reserve

Photo: Galatas, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rixton Clay Pits is a former clay extraction site in Rixton, near Hollins Green, Warrington, England. Formerly farmland, boulder clay extraction started in the 1920s for brick making in the adjacent brickworks and ceased in 1965 – since then it has been allowed to return to nature.

Risley Moss

Photo: Mike Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington, England. It is a country park, Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lymm and Birchwood.

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.

Birchwood

Suburb

Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Birchwood is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The parish had a population of 10,614 at the 2021 census. Located originally in Lancashire, it was built as a new town in the 1970s.

Cadishead

Village

Photo: Dealtdark, Public domain.

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.

Moss Head

Type: Forest
Location: Rixton-with-Glazebrook, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.4077° or 53° 24′ 28″ north

Longitude

-2.4873° or 2° 29′ 14″ west

Open location code

9C5VCG57+33

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9138636397

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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