Park Bridge | |
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View of Park Bridge from the ironworks | |
Location within Greater Manchester | |
OS grid reference | SD9402 |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE |
Postcode district | OL |
Dialling code | 0161 |
Police | Greater Manchester |
Fire | Greater Manchester |
Ambulance | North West |
UK Parliament | |
Park Bridge is an area of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. It is situated in the Medlock Valley, by Ashton-under-Lyne's border with Oldham. Park Bridge anciently lay within the medieval manor of Ashton; however, there is no record of Park Bridge until the 17th century. The name is probably a reference to the medieval Lyme Park, in the north west of the manor of Ashton.[1] For nearly two hundred years from the 18th to the 20th centuries it was the site of the Park Bridge Ironworks.