Pennington Bridge

Pennington Bridge is a bridge in Wigan, England. Pennington Bridge is situated nearby to the grassland Greyhound Island, as well as near Breaston Bridge.

Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Bridge
Description: bridge in Leigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Inscription: “C.C. PENNINGTON BRIDGE; BUILT 1931.”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Breaston Bridge and Bedford Hall.

Breaston Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Keith Williamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Breaston Bridge is situated 930 feet west of Pennington Bridge.

Bedford Hall is a late-medieval house in Bedford, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It was leased to tenants by the Kighleys, absent lords of the manor of Bedford, and has been modified several times over the centuries becoming a farmhouse and now two houses. Bedford Hall is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Pennington Bridge.

St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church

Church

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Joseph's Church is an active Roman Catholic church in, Leigh in Greater Manchester, England. It is in the parish of St Edmund Arrowsmith. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building. St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church is situated 1 mile northwest of Pennington Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedford and Leigh.

Bedford

Suburb

Bedford is a suburb of Leigh, in the Wigan district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was one of three ancient townships, Bedford, Pennington and Westleigh, that merged in 1875 to form the town of Leigh. Historically, Bedford was in Lancashire.

Leigh

Town

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Leigh is a town in the Wigan district, in Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. It is situated approximately 6 miles southeast of Wigan and 11 miles west of Manchester city centre.