Long Wood

Long Wood is a forest in Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, England. Long Wood is situated near the village Lostock Gralam, as well as near Plumley.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lostock Gralam railway station and Plumley railway station.

Lostock Gralam railway station

Railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Lostock Gralam railway station serves the village of Lostock Gralam in Cheshire, England. The station is on the Mid-Cheshire line from Chester to Manchester Piccadilly, 18½ miles east of Chester.

Plumley railway station

Railway station

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Plumley railway station serves the village of Plumley in Cheshire, England. The station is 20½ miles east of Chester on the Mid-Cheshire Line to Manchester Piccadilly.

Lion Salt Works

Museum

Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Lion Salt Works is the UK's last remaining open pan salt works, in Marston, near Northwich, Cheshire, England. It closed as a works in 1986 and is now preserved as a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Northwich and Knutsford.

Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane, 18 miles east of Chester, 15 miles south of Warrington, 19 miles south of Manchester, 69 miles north of Birmingham and 22 miles south-east of Liverpool.

Knutsford

Photo: flashcurd, CC BY 2.0.

Knutsford is a very pleasant town of 13,000 people in Cheshire spoilt only by its position under Manchester Airport's flight path.

Lostock Gralam

Village

Photo: Ian Warburton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Lostock Gralam is a village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England; it is sited east of Northwich. The civil parish also includes the small hamlet of Lostock Green. At the 2011 census, the population was 2,298.

Long Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Lostock Gralam, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.272° or 53° 16′ 19″ north

Longitude

-2.4492° or 2° 26′ 57″ west

Open location code

9C5V7HC2+R8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 230509045

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Plumley and Lostock Green.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: The Weaver’s Whistle Playground and The Weaver’s Whistle beer garden.

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