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Thelwall Viaduct
The Thelwall Viaduct (grid reference SJ664883) is a steel composite girder viaduct in Lymm, Warrington, England. It carries the M6 motorway across the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey. It is between junctions 20 and 21 of the M6, the former also being junction 9 of the M56.
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577 m
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.
The Woolston Eyes Conservation Group manages the site as a nature reserve with access by permit only. The rather strange name for the site is from Anglo-Saxon, ees meaning the land near a loop in a river.
890 m
Martinscroft
Martinscroft is a part of the civil parish of Woolston in Warrington, Cheshire, England.
It is rumoured that Battery Lane in the village got its name from where Oliver Cromwell stored his weapons during his visit in the civil war.
Martinscroft Green is the village green and is also a popular place for recreational activities.
It recently has been enlarged by new housing estates and the building of a hotel, although it has a few old cottages still along the village green.
Hidden in the trees at the back of the village green is a school gate post which is from when there was a school on the village green and also horse mounting steps which are from when there was a pub on the village green.
1.6 km
Thelwall railway station
Thelwall railway station was a station to the south of Stockport Road A56 road, Thelwall, England, at the junction of St Helens Railway and Warrington and Stockport Railway. It opened in June 1854; and it closed to passengers on 17 September 1956. Both railways were absorbed by the LNWR; the station was on the southmost Liverpool to Manchester line.
1.6 km
Lymm railway station
Lymm railway station was a station to the west of Whitbarrow Road, Lymm, England on the Warrington and Stockport Railway. It opened in 1853; and it closed in 1962. The railway was absorbed by the LNWR. The station was on the southernmost railway line between Liverpool to Manchester.