Top 4 Lakes around Moulton

Lovely ride through Delamere Forest. You can't go wrong on a mtb or emtb. I entered the forest at New Pale and went round lots of trails to the holiday lodges and came out on Waterloo Lane.

the path around east side is very muddy in parts definitely need boots or wellies, not walking shoes like me lol

Pickmere Lake is a popular spot in Cheshire for open water swimming. Lawns and Picnic tables as well as car parking are available throughout the site.

Blakemere Moss at Delamere Forest is a reclaimed wetland area. The Moss was originally formed from two kettle holes (water filled hollows formed by a detached mass of glacial ice melted in situ towards the end of the last ice age). Delamere Forest is made up of more than 100 peatland basins and includes several sites of rare 'quaking' bogland, a phenomenon in which sphagnum mosses form a carpet above peaty water that appears to tremble when trodden on. The area was drained from the 1800's, supposedly by prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars and planted with trees, (mainly oak and Scot's Pine) between 1793-1815 to provide timber for shipbuilding. The Forestry Commission planted the moss with pine and western hemlock during the 1940s, which proved uneconomic. In the late 1990's the Commission allowed the area to re-flood again naturally.

2 Different places. Blakemere lake for fishing is in Shropshire. Blakemere Moss in Delamere Forest is not for fishing and is near Northwich Cheshire.

Marbury Country Park boasts avenues of lime trees, an arboretum, a wildlife-rich mere, and even has an outdoor swimming pool (£8 for adults, £5 for children). The park is nestled within Northwich Community Woodlands, where former industrial land is gradually being reclaimed by nature. For more information, visit: https://www.visitcheshire.com/things-to-do/marbury-country-park-and-outdoor-pool-p32091.

Croxton Flash, on the east bank of the Trent and Mersey Canal, was formed because of mining subsidence. The lake is one of many similar lakes in the area created this way, which are referred to locally as ‘flashes’. Croxton Flash is home to many birds and insects.

Blakemere Moss is a flooded area of Delamere Forest. The lake is rich in biodiversity and is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a great place for birdwatching and is home to species such as greylags, Canada geese, black-headed gulls, coots, mallards, and lapwings. The area was drained in the 1800s, supposedly by prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars, and planted with trees. It was turned back into a lake in the 1990s and tree stumps still poke through the water’s surface.