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Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve

Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve is a national nature reserve in Cheshire and Greater Manchester in England, designated in 2025. It consists of eleven sites of varied lowland peat areas.

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Cadishead and Little Woolden Moss

Cadishead and Little Woolden Moss is a nature reserve of the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, an area of Chat Moss which is being restored to its former state of peatland.
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Astley railway station

Astley was a railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on Chat Moss to the south of Astley village in what was then the county of Lancashire, England.
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Astley and Bedford Mosses

Astley and Bedford Mosses are areas of peat bog south of the Bridgewater Canal and north of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. They are situated about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) south-east of Leigh, in Astley and Bedford, Greater Manchester, England. They are among the last remaining fragments of Chat Moss, the raised bog that once covered a large area, of around 10+2⁄3 square miles (28 km2), south Lancashire north of the River Mersey. Astley Moss was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1989. Astley and Bedford Mosses, along with Risley Moss and Holcroft Moss, are part of Manchester Mosses, a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation.
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Flow Moss railway station

Flow Moss was a short-lived, original railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway south of Astley village in what was then the county of Lancashire, England.