Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve
Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Birchwood, Warrington, England. Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve is situated nearby to the quarter Gorse Covert, as well as near Oakwood.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.
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.
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.
Culcheth
Village
Photo: Plucas58, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Culcheth is a village in the civil parish of Culcheth and Glazebury, in the Warrington district, in Cheshire, England, six miles north-east of Warrington.
Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Birchwood, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.4218° or 53° 25′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.4997° or 2° 29′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C5VCGC2+P4OpenStreetMap ID
way 1481957862OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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