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Rixton-with-Glazebrook

Rixton-with-Glazebrook is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.

Rixton-with-Glazebrook
Rixton-with-Glazebrook · Irlam,Cadishead,Rixton with Glazebrook old photos
The place

Rixton-with-Glazebrook is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. Formerly within the historic county of Lancashire, it lies to the east of Warrington and is largely farmland. At the 2011 Census, the parish had a population of 1,960. Its main settlements are the villages of Glazebrook and Hollins Green, and Rixton hamlet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rixton-with-Glazebrook

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 km · church in Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holcroft Hall

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

    3.1 km · Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Culcheth, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cadishead Viaduct

    Cadishead Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct of multi-lattice girder construction. It was built in 1892 by the Cheshire Lines Committee to clear the newly built Manchester Ship Canal to carry the new deviation of the Glazebrook to Woodley Main Line.

    2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Werburgh's Church, Warburton

    St Werburgh's Church is the name of two separate churches in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester, England. The older church is located to the west of the village, and may date back as early as the middle of the 13th century.

    3.5 km · church in Warburton, Trafford, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Warburton High Level Bridge

    Warburton is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Cheshire, it lies on the south bank of the River Mersey.

    2.4 km · bridge in Warburton, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom · 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 Rixton-with-Glazebrook

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 15 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 28 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 72 km
Stations
Irlam railway station, 1.6 km · Glazebrook railway station, 200 m
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rixton-with-Glazebrook
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rixton-with-Glazebrook
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–18
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Rixton-with-Glazebrook
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rixton-with-Glazebrook

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 Rixton-with-Glazebrook. 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
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    292 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    315 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    331 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    356 km

If you know how people move in Rixton-with-Glazebrook – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Rixton-with-Glazebrook

Rixton-with-Glazebrook is 16 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Partingtontown and civil parish in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Irlamsuburb of the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England3.5 km
  • Warburtonvillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK2.9 km
  • Cadisheadtown in Greater Manchester, UK1.5 km
  • Hollins Greenvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, England1.7 km