🦎 Rixton Clay Pits

United Kingdom · Europe · Nature Reserve · 53.41°N, 2.48°W

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. It is now an area of ponds, scrub, woodland and damp grassland. It is owned and managed by Warrington Borough Council as a local amenity.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Protection type	🦎 Nature Reserve
Coordinates (approx.)	53.41°N, 2.48°W · view on map

Rixton Clay Pits is a nature reserve in United Kingdom, in Europe. The details of why Rixton Clay Pits is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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