Risley Moss, Warrington

Name: Risley Moss
Address: Warrington, United Kingdom

#11 among attractions in Warrington

Relax in park, Park, Top attraction

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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. It covers an area of 210.5 acres and is one of the last remaining fragments of the raised bogs that once covered large areas of South Lancashire and North Cheshire. ()

Elevation: 75 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 53°25'22"N, 2°29'57"W

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Warrington United Kingdom

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Risley Moss – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: St Wilfrid's Church, Rixton Clay Pits, St Mary's Church, St Werburgh's Church.

3.9 miSW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church, Gothic architecture
St Wilfrid's Church, Warrington
101 min walk • St Wilfrid's Church is in Church Lane, Grappenhall, a village in Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building.
1.4 miSE
Park, Nature and wildlife
Rixton Clay Pits, Warrington
36 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.
3.3 miS
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Mary's Church, Lymm
83 min walk • St Mary's Church is the Anglican parish church of Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, standing on a bank overlooking Lymm Dam. It is a grade II listed building. It is an active church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.
2.2 miSE
Church
St Werburgh's Church
57 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.
4 miSW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church, Gothic architecture
St Elphin's Church, Warrington
102 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.
2.4 miNW
Church
Culcheth Methodist Church, Warrington
61 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.
2.3 miS
Bridge
Thelwall Viaduct, Lymm
60 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.
3.3 miSE
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St Peter's Church, Lymm
85 min walk • St Peter's Church is in Oughtrington Lane, to the east of the village of Lymm, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
2.2 miSW
Park
Woolston Park, Warrington
56 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.
2.3 miNW
53°27'0"N • 2°31'49"W
The Friends of Culcheth Linear Park, Culcheth
59 min walk • Park
3.7 miW
Park
Orford Park, Warrington
96 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.