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Kersal Moor, originally called Karsey or Carsall Moor, is a recreation area in Kersal. The moor now consists of eight hectares of moorland bounded by SD8101 : Moor Lane, Kersal, Heathlands Road, SD8202 : St Paul's Church and Graveyard, Kersal Moor and Singleton Brook but it originally covered a much larger area. The map of 1848 shows the moor extending across the land down to the River Irwell.

Kersal Moor is one of many fluvioglacial ridges that formed along the Irwell Valley during the melting of the glaciers at the end of the ice age. Typically for this type of landform, the subsoil is composed of sand mixed with coarse gravel. The moor is criss-crossed with footpaths, many of which cut through to this sand and gravel below.

With increasing industrialisation and urbanisation of Manchester and Salford during the 18th and 19th centuries, the moor became one of the remaining areas of natural landscape of interest to amateur naturalists. The moor has for some years been designated a Site of Biological Importance, which is the designation given to the most important non-statutory sites for nature conservation in Greater Manchester. In 2007 it was designated as a Local Nature Reserve by English Nature.

Link - Wikipedia