Blythe Bridge

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Blythe Bridge
longitude= -2.0709
latitude= 52.9704
population = 1,478
shire_county= Staffordshire
shire_district= Staffordshire Moorlands
civil_parish= Blythe Bridge and Forsbrook
region= West Midlands
constituency_westminster= Stone
post_town= Stoke-on-Trent
postcode_area= ST
postcode_district= ST11
dial_code= 01782
os_grid_reference= SJ953414

Blythe Bridge is a village situated in the Staffordshire Moorlands, although it is effectively a south-eastern suburb of the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

Etymology

Blythe Bridge is so called as it is built around the site of a bridge over the River Blithe (spelt differently to the name of the village itself), a small river which passes directly through the village.

Today

Facilities

It has a high school, sixth form college and library, as well as two public houses: The Black Cock on Uttoxeter Road and The Duke of Wellington. The Smithfield and The White Cock are currently closed. The village also has a bakery, post office, betting shop, newsagents, motor garage, dentist, GP surgery, shoeshop, a few hairdressers, and some fast-food outlets.

chools

* [http://www.blythebridge.staffs.sch.uk/ Blythe Bridge High School and College]
* [http://www.springcroft.staffs.sch.uk/ Springcroft Primary School]

Transport

Train services are available at Blythe Bridge railway station, which was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on August 7, 1848, on the Crewe to Derby railway line. The Uttoxeter Road, a former major motorway link route (M1 to M6) was relieved by the A50 dual-carriageway; first as a bypass that opened in 1975, and then the section to Uttoxeter in 1985. The nearby Meir Aerodrome closed in 1973.

Nearest Places

*Barlaston
*Cheadle
*Draycott in the Moors
*Fulford
*Lightwood
*Longton
*Meir
*Uttoxeter

External links

* [http://www.blythebridge.org.uk/ Blythe Bridge Community Website]