Risley Moss

Risley Moss is a territory of peat lowland arranged close Birchwood in Warrington, England. It is a site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve. It covers a territory of 210.5 sections of land 85.2 ha and is one of the final parts of the raised lowlands that once secured expansive regions of South Lancashire and North Cheshire. Regular sorrows in the frosty float left by the ice sheets which secured the Cheshire– Shropshire plain amid the last ice age, 10,000– 15,000 years back, loaded up with water, framing the meres and greeneries normal for the territory today.

Sometimes, as Risley Moss, peat aggregation filled the melancholy, permitting colonization by marsh greeneries, for example, the Sphagnum assortments, along these lines offering ascend to the name "greenery". Risley Moss is one of just two greeneries in Cheshire where the water level has been purposely brought up in an endeavor to empower the recovery of a functioning lowland surface.

The long haul reclamation task to re-wet the greenery started in 1978 and was finished in 2002. This plan was attempted to make a progression of scratches and bunds to hold water and reproduce the ideal conditions for lowland greenery, for example, cotton grass and sphagnum greeneries to re-colonize the bogs. It was the previous site of an expansive Royal Ordnance Factory. Today, it is overseen by Cheshire County Council as a nation stop and an instructive nature hold. It was assigned a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1986.