Birchwood Forest Park, Warrington

Name: Birchwood Forest Park
Address: Warrington, United Kingdom

#28 among attractions in Warrington

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Facts and practical information

Birchwood Forest Park covers the area formerly occupied by the Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Risley, in Birchwood, Warrington, in north-west England. The park covers an area of 500 acres and stretches from the M6 in the west to the M62, junction 11, in the east. ()

Elevation: 75 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 53°25'23"N, 2°31'16"W

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Warrington United Kingdom

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Day trips

Birchwood Forest Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Rixton Clay Pits, Risley Moss, St Werburgh's Church, St Elphin's Church.

2.1 miSE
Park, Nature and wildlife
Rixton Clay Pits, Warrington
55 min walk • 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.
0.9 miE
Park
Risley Moss, Warrington
23 min walk • 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.
3 miSE
Church
St Werburgh's Church
77 min walk • St Werburgh's Church is the name of two separate churches in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester, England. The older church is located to the west of the village, and may date back as far as the middle of the 13th century. It is now a redundant church but services are held in the summer months.
3.3 miSW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church, Gothic architecture
St Elphin's Church, Warrington
84 min walk • St Elphin's Church is the parish church of the town of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the deanery of Warrington.
3.2 miW
Church
St Oswald's Church
82 min walk • St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
2.2 miN
Church
Culcheth Methodist Church, Warrington
56 min walk • Culcheth Methodist Church is in the village of Culcheth, Warrington, England, at the corner of Ellesmere Road and Burton Close, a short walk from the village green.
2.4 miS
Bridge
Thelwall Viaduct, Lymm
62 min walk • The Thelwall Viaduct is a steel composite girder viaduct in Lymm, Warrington, England. It carries the M6 motorway across the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey.
1.5 miSW
Park
Woolston Park, Warrington
40 min walk • 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.
1.9 miN
53°27'0"N • 2°31'49"W
The Friends of Culcheth Linear Park, Culcheth
49 min walk • Park
2.9 miSW
Park
Orford Park, Warrington
75 min walk • Orford Park is a municipal park in the town of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Orford Hall and surrounding lands were donated to Warrington Council in December 1916.
3.5 miSE
Lake, Trail, Dam
Lymm Dam, Lymm
90 min walk • Lymm Dam is the name of a dam and lake in Lymm, Cheshire, England, an inset village in the greenbelt around Warrington. It was created in 1824 by a dam built during the construction of what is now the A56 road, when local inhabitants objected to initial plans for a route through the village centre.

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Train

Birchwood (19 min walk)