Woolston Eyes

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.

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Type: Nature reserve
Description: Nature reserve in Cheshire, England.
Also known as: “Woolston Eyes Nature Reserve No. 2 Bed”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Birchwood railway station and All Saints Church.

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.

All Saints Church

Church

Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.

All Saints Church is in the village of Thelwall, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

Woolston Park

Park

Woolston Park is a modern park that is situated in the civil parish of Woolston, Warrington, in the English county of Cheshire. Woolston Park covers 56 acres and was officially opened in 1977.

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.

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.

Woolston Eyes

Categories: park and recreation area
Location: Woolston, Warrington, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.3909° or 53° 23′ 27″ north

Longitude

-2.5163° or 2° 30′ 59″ west

Open location code

9C5V9FRM+9F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 822487969

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

Wikidata ID

Q8033948

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