The area east of Birchwood is mainly birch forests and Risley Moss, part of the Mersey Forest.

Risley Moss is a site of special scientific interest.

Risley Moss

Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington, England.

In some cases, like Risley Moss, peat accumulation filled the depression, allowing colonisation by bog mosses such as the Sphagnum varieties, thus giving rise to the name " moss ".

Risley Moss, together with Astley and Bedford Mosses and Holcroft Moss, is also a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation, known as Manchester Mosses.

The main feature of Risley Moss is the large peat bog flats, overlooked by two observation points: a large watchtower, ideal for bird watching, and a smaller lookout.

The most commonly found implementation is a Risley prism pair.

In terms of the local area, it borders Culcheth to the east, Lowton ( which is in Greater Manchester ) to the north, Winwick to the west and Risley to the south.

* Wriothesley is a character in Hilary Mantel's series of novels on Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, nicknamed Call-Me Risley ( for the correct pronunciation of the family name ).

The bulk of Birchwood is built on the site of the former ROF Risley Royal Ordnance Factory, with Birchwood Forest Park lying in the centre, in which the old bunkers from the factory form part of the landscape.

" The surface, at a distance, looks black and dirty, and will bear neither horse nor man ….. What nature meant by such a useless production ‘ tis hard to imagine, but the land is entirely to waste " are the words of Daniel Defoe as he rode through Risley in 1724.

It is a relatively large district with a shop, public house ( The Turf and Feather ), takeaway shop, primary school ( Locking Stumps Community Primary School ), and a modern church ( The Thomas Risley United Reformed Church ).

Sandiacre is neighboured by Long Eaton to the south and Risley to the west.

Couch juggling ( also called foot-juggling, antipodism or Risley ) is a stunt in which one lies on one's back, balancing an upended sofa on the soles of one's feet.

The series is directed by Mark Risley and Jim Schumann.

For example, like Risley, Atwood is the daughter of an entomologist.

A Risley is any circus acrobalance posture where the base is lying down on their back, supporting one or more flyers with their hands, feet and / or other parts of the body.

Risley is best known for the now discounted attribution of all differences in caste to varying proportions of seven racial types which included " Dravidian ," " Aryo-Dravidian ," and " Indo-Aryan ".

Risley is a small village and parish in Erewash in the English county of Derbyshire.

Risley is a long thin village with most properties lying on either side of the main road.

The village pub is the Risley Park formally the Blue Ball on Derby Road

Risley is a neighbourhood in the northeast corner of Warrington, Cheshire, England.

HMP Risley is located in the area.

In 1822 he went to a school at Southwell, then to one at Risley, and in 1825 to Winchester as a commoner.

At the 2001 census ( the next one scheduled for 2011 ), there were 2790 residents living in 1191 properties ( statistic areas 005B and 004B-Gorse Covert, Risley South and Locking Stumps East ).

According to Susan Bayly: Those like ( Sir William ) Hunter, as well as the key figures of H. H. Risley ( 1851 – 1911 ) and his protégé Edgar Thurston, who were disciples of the French race theorist Topinard and his European followers, subsumed discussions of caste into theories of biologically determined race essences, ... Their great rivals were the material or occupational theorists led by the ethnographer and folklorist William Crooke ( 1848 – 1923 ), author of one of the most widely read provincial Castes and Tribes surveys, and such other influential scholar-officials as Denzil Ibbetson and E. A. H. Blunt.

Risley act means spinning a person or object using only his or her feet.

Korf grew up in Ithaca, NY, and attended Cornell University, where she lived in Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts.

The company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 2, 500 employees.

Rick Omonte remains active member of the New Haven, Connecticut music scene and has played bass for bands such as The Risley Dales, Crooked Hook and The Mountain Movers.

He had already been created Baron Wriothesley ( pronounced " Risley ") in 1544, also in the Peerage of England.

A key figure behind the census was Herbert Hope Risley, best known for the now discounted attribution of all differences in caste to varying proportions of seven racial types.

It was an idea later taken up by British administrators such as Herbert Hope Risley but remains disputed today.

Examples of optical beam steering approaches include mechanical mirror-based gimbals or beam-director units, galvanometer mechanisms that rotate mirrors, Risley prisms, phased-array optics, and microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS ) using micro-mirrors.

* John W. Risley, Freeholder At-Large ( 2014 )

When Ericsson arrived from England and settled in New York, he was persuaded by Samuel Risley of Greenwich Village to give his work to the Phoenix Foundry.

, members of the Egg Harbor Township Committee are Mayor James J. McCullough, Deputy Mayor John W. Risley, Jr., Joe Cafero, John Carman, Jr. and Paul Hodson.

The nearest providers are at Risley Police Station and Birchwood Fire Station.

He faced prison for the first time at Risley, serving time on remand for criminal damage after he smashed some parked cars following an argument with his girlfriend's father ; following his trial he was fined and given probation.

He was returned to the general prison population at Risley Remand Centre in 1985, but was put into isolation after punching a fellow inmate.

She defended prisoners accused of rioting at Risley Remand Centre and then at Strangeways Prison and continued to represent campaigners in many kinds of protest case.

During a short time in the early 1980s when SCTV was in between network deals, she was hired to replace Ann Risley when Saturday Night Live was being retooled in 1981.

* Risley, Ford, ed.

November: presented at Cornell University by Risley Theatre, Ithaca, NY.

in 1927, leaving behind a photographic study of the rural campus for the school's newspaper, including photographs of her famed dormitory Risley Hall.

Until 2003 its headquarters were based at Risley, near Warrington, England.