Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve

The King's Series of National Nature Reserves was launched in May 2023, to celebrate the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla, with five major National Nature Reserves named every year for five years, 25 in total. The first was the Lincolnshire Coronation Coast National Nature Reserve. The Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve is part of the King's Series of National Nature Reserves. It was declared by Natural England on 4 March 2025, and officially launched on 14 July 2025.

Its area is 529 ha, lying in the parishes of Birchwood, Culcheth and Glazebury, and Rixton-with-Glazebrook in Cheshire; and in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Salford and Wigan in Greater Manchester. It consists of eleven sites of varied lowland peat areas, including raised bog, fen, lowland heath and wet woodland. It includes Risley Moss, a local nature reserve in Cheshire; Holcroft Moss, a nature reserve of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust; The reserve is managed by Natural England, Cheshire Wildlife Trust, Forestry England, The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, Warrington Borough Council, Wigan Council and Woodland Trust. Mary Creagh, the Parliamentary…