Risley Moss
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.Photo: Mike Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Birchwood railway station and Glazebrook railway station.
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.
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.
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.
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 Moss
- Type: Wetland
- Description: peat bog in Cheshire, England, UK
- Categories: peatland and body of water
- Location: Birchwood, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4225° or 53° 25′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.4978° or 2° 29′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C5VCGF2+2VOpenStreetMap ID
way 746759032OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandWikidata ID
Q7336318
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