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Wybunbury Moss

Cheshire  >  United Kingdom

Schwingmoor and wet woodland habitat, Wybunbury Moss is a National Nature Reserve and SSSI with permissive and public footpaths around.

Tillagd* av James Tatlow
Senast uppdaterad 13 december 2025
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Beskrivning

Starting from the location of the former St Chad's Church. The last church on this site was demolished in 1976 after suffering from ground movement that caused the building to lean and become unsafe, however the tower and churchyard remain. kaja and skogsduva are often seen around or on the tower, and the yew trees in the churchyard provide forage and habitat for kungsfågel, finches such as steglits, grönfink and in the winter grönsiska and thrushes: taltrast, dubbeltrast, koltrast, rödvingetrast, etc.

Through a swing gate and down a somewhat muddy slope the path goes towards the schwingmoor (a floating peat raft entirely covering a 12m deep bog). Although much of this area is off limits to casual visitors a permissive footpath does divert from the public footpath for excursion into the habitat and this is mostly covered by boardwalk, recently maintained and with the full circuit restored in 2025. Never-the-less, some areas can be wet after heavy rain. In addition to the birds already mentioned sparvhök, ormvråk and större hackspett are commonly seen, nötskrika are present but usually only heard. talltita is possible. In the summer hirundines are common (hussvala, tornseglare and ladusvala) as are various warblers (gransångare, lövsångare, svarthätta).

Making a longer loop walk around the public footpaths in the area takes you past horse grazing/stables and other farmland habitat. Flocks of finches and tits abound, gulsparv is possible. There are multiple options branching out from here not specifically marked on the map but that can be followed by looking for yellow waymarkers in the field or as footpaths with public right of way on maps.

Detaljer

Tillgänglighet

Wybunbury Moss is located near the village of Wybunbury in Cheshire, close to the town of Nantwich and not far from Crewe. Park in the village of Wybunbury near to the pub or church. Press a P on the map for directions. The area is best explored by foot, and would not be wheelchair accessible. It is well connected to the public footpath network.

Terräng och habitat

Vassar , Våtmark , Spridda träd och buskar

Förhållanden

Halt , Sumpigt

Rundtur

Ja

Tubkikare behövs?

Nej

Bästa säsong för skådning

Året runt

Bästa tid för ett besök

Vår

Rutt

Smal stig , Bred stig

Hur ansträngande vandring

Lätt vandring

Nås

Till fots

Fågeltorn / plattform

Nej

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