Gallows Croft

Gallows Croft is a forest in Grappenhall and Thelwall, Warrington, England. Gallows Croft is situated nearby to the quarter Highfields Farm, as well as near the suburb Thelwall.

Places of Interest

Highlights include HM Prison Thorn Cross and Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden.

HM Prison Thorn Cross

Prison

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HM Prison Thorn Cross is a Category D Adult Male Institution for males; it previously was for young men aged 18–25. The prison is located in the village of Appleton Thorn, near Warrington in Cheshire, England.

Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden

Garden

Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden is a historic walled garden in Grappenhall, Warrington, Cheshire, England. The garden was built by Thomas Parr around 1830 as both a pleasure garden for relaxing strolls and as a kitchen garden to produce fruit, vegetables, and herbs.

Woolston Eyes

Nature reserve

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Woolston Eyes is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located in the town of Warrington, England, alongside the Manchester Ship Canal. The eyes themselves are used for the deposition of dredgings from the Ship Canal under a Waste Management Licence issued by the Environment Agency.

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 9,651 at the 2021 census.