Bamber Bridge
Bamber Bridge is a large village in Lancashire, England, 3 miles south-east of Preston, in the borough of South Ribble. The name derives from the Old English "bēam" and "brycg", which probably means "tree-trunk bridge".Photo: Margaret Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 12,100 residents
- Description: settlement in South Ribble, Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Bamber Bridge, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bamber Bridge railway station and Brownedge St Mary’s Catholic High School.
Bamber Bridge railway station
Railway station
Brownedge St Mary’s Catholic High School
School
Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Bamber Bridge in the English county of Lancashire. It is a voluntary aided school administered by Lancashire County Council and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clayton Brook and Preston.
Clayton Brook
Village
Photo: Paul Glenville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clayton Brook is a large residential estate in Lancashire, between the city of Preston and the town of Chorley. It forms part of the Clayton-le-Woods civil parish, and is in the Clayton-le-Woods North ward of the borough of Chorley.
Preston
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Preston is a city in the county of Lancashire in North West England, with a population in 2021 of 148,000. It's a former textile and engineering town; it still makes aircraft, hosts the county local government, and has a university.
Whittle-le-Woods
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whittle-le-Woods is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,434. Whittle-le-Woods is situated 3 miles south of Bamber Bridge.
Bamber Bridge
- Category: locality
- Location: South Ribble, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.72911° or 53° 43′ 45″ northLongitude
-2.6607° or 2° 39′ 39″ westPopulation
12,100Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9C5VP8HQ+JPOpenStreetMap ID
node 28990114OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2656426Wikidata ID
Q946361
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Bamber Bridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bamber Bridge”
- Dutch: “Bamber Bridge”
- French: “Bamber Bridge”
- German: “Bamber Bridge”
- Irish: “Bamber Bridge”
- Japanese: “バンバー・ブリッジ”
- Polish: “Bamber Bridge”
- Spanish: “Bamber Bridge”
- Welsh: “Bamber Bridge”
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Highlights include Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witness and Bamber Bridge Post Office.
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