Bridge End

Bridge End

1. Alternative spelling of Bridgend, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
   • 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:

     Bridge End is the border station and the scene of many a sad parting between enterprising shoppers and their purchases—for it is a stronghold of the Customs !—and half an hour is allowed in the timetable for examination and shunting.

2. A place in England:
   1. A hamlet in Aveton Gifford parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX6946).
   2. A small village in Warden parish, north-west of Hexham, Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9166).
   3. A neighbourhood of Dorchester, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU5793). ^[1]
      • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 154, about Dorchester, Oxon:

        Between the southern end of the village, called Bridge End, and the River Thames runs a double row of ramparts and a ditch known as Dyke Hills.

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