Town in Cheshire, England

Birchwood

Birchwood is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.

Plan a trip to Birchwood→From Leeds, West Yorkshire

Every way there

Leeds, West Yorkshire → Birchwood
55 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birchwood
47 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Birchwood
70 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Birchwood, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Birchwood has

YScheduled flightsManchester, Greater Manchester (MAN), 18 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 26 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Warrington, 4 km.

53.418°, -2.529°

The parish had a population of 10,614 at the 2021 census. Located originally in Lancashire, it was built as a new town in the 1970s. Birchwood is made up of three districts: Gorse Covert, Locking Stumps and Oakwood.

How locals move

Getting around Birchwood the local way

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. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: George Chernilevsky (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.