Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GUIDE BRIDGE

GUIDE BRIDGE, a hamlet in Audenshaw division of Ashton-under-Lyne parish, Lancashire; on the SE verge of the county, near a junction of the Manchester and Staleybridge, the Manchester and Sheffield, and the Stockport branch of the North-western railways, 5 miles E of Manchester. It has a station at the railway junction; and near it is Audenshaw-ST. Stephen church.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ashton under Lyne CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Guide Bridge

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