Big Wood
Big Wood is a forest in Anderton with Marbury, Cheshire, England. Big Wood is situated near the locality Dairy House Meadows, as well as near the village Upper Marston.Places of Interest
Highlights: Anderton Boat Lift and Northwich railway station.
Anderton Boat Lift
The Anderton Boat Lift is a two-caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a 50-foot vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal.Northwich railway station
Railway station
Northwich railway station serves the town of Northwich, in Cheshire, England. The station has two platforms in use, with a third now disused and fenced off. On the Mid-Cheshire line, it is located 28+1⁄4 miles south-west of Manchester Piccadilly.
Lion Salt Works
Museum
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 Barnton.
Northwich
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.Barnton
Village
Barnton is a civil parish and village, just outside the town of Northwich, in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Lostock Gralam
Village
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.
Big Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Anderton with Marbury, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.2817° or 53° 16′ 54″ north
Longitude
-2.5139° or 2° 30′ 50″ west
Open location code
9C5V7FJP+MC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Places to explore: Dairy House Meadows and Upper Marston.
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Highlights: Big Wood and Marbury Country Park.
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