Rixton Clay Pits
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.Photo: Galatas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: former clay extraction site in Rixton, England
- Also known as: “Rixton Claypits Local Nature Reserve”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glazebrook railway station and Risley Moss.
Glazebrook railway station
Railway station
Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
St Werburgh’s Church, Warburton
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Werburgh's Church is the name of two separate churches in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester, England. The older church is located to the west of the village, and may date back as early as the middle of the 13th century.
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.
Rixton Clay Pits
- Categories: park, clay pit, and recreation area
- Location: Rixton-with-Glazebrook, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4101° or 53° 24′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.4739° or 2° 28′ 26″ westOpen location code
9C5VCG6G+3COpenStreetMap ID
way 1304267492OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveWikidata ID
Q7339018
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