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Chat Moss

Chat Moss is a large area of peat bog that makes up part of the City of Salford, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

Chat Moss
Chat Moss · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chat Moss is a large area of peat bog that makes up part of the City of Salford, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It also makes up part of Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside and Warrington in Cheshire. North of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey, 5 miles (8 km) to the west of Manchester, it occupies an area of about 10.6 square miles (27.5 km2).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chat Moss

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St George's Church, Carrington

    St George's Church is in the village of Carrington, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, but is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.9 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lancashire Mining Museum

    The Astley Green Colliery Museum is a heritage museum in Astley near Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, England, operated by the Red Rose Steam Society. The site was originally a working colliery that produced coal from 1912 until its closure in 1970 and is now protected as a Scheduled Monument.

    3.7 km · mining museum in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holcroft Hall

    Holcroft Hall is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Holcroft, Culcheth, Cheshire.

    3.6 km · Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Culcheth, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Morleys Hall

    Morleys Hall, a moated hall converted to two houses, is situated on Morleys Lane, on the edge of Astley Moss in Astley in the historic county of Lancashire and the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester, England. It was largely rebuilt in the 19th century on the site of a medieval timber house.

    3.8 km · Grade II* listed building in Astley, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Flixton House

    Flixton House was built in 1806 by the Wright family, who had become wealthy land owners in Flixton. It is a Queen Anne revival style country house, in Flemish bond brick, with neo-classical portico and fanlight.

    3.7 km · building in Flixton,Trafford · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Chat Moss

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 16 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 31 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 68 km
Stations
Manchester City Airport & Heliport, 2.9 km · Irlam railway station, 3.2 km · Flixton railway station, 3.8 km · Astley railway station, 1.5 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chat Moss
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chat Moss
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–18
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Chat Moss
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chat Moss

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chat Moss. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is an off-road walk through The Dingle between the town centre and Lymm Dam.

From Wikivoyage: Lymm, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    293 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    318 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    328 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km

If you know how people move in Chat Moss – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Chat Moss

Chat Moss is 13 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Irlamsuburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England2.2 km
  • Cadisheadtown in Greater Manchester, UK4 km
  • Peel Greensuburb of Eccles, in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.3 km