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Bridgemere is a village (at ) and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is around south east of Nantwich and west of Stoke-on-Trent. The southern boundary of the parish is on the border with Shropshire. The civil parish also includes the small settlements of Admiral's Gorse, Parrah Green, Prince Hill, Seven Stars and Wheel Green.〔(Genuki: Bridgemere ) (accessed 30 January 2009)〕 The total population is a little under 150. Nearby towns and villages include Blakenhall, Buerton and Hankelow in Cheshire, Madeley, Staffordshire and Woore, Shropshire. ==History== Bridgemere was originally a township in the ancient parish of Wybunbury in the Nantwich Hundred.〔 During the medieval period, it had an iron foundry.〔Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes. ''The Cheshire Village Book'' pp. 38–41 (Countryside Books & CFWI; 1990) (ISBN 1-85306-075-5)〕 One of the two major coaching roads in Cheshire ran from London via Bridgemere to Nantwich, Chester and on to Holyhead in Wales; it became one of the first turnpike roads in the county in 1743. A coach service between London and Chester ran three times a week from 1657, taking four days over the journey; by 1780, a daily service ran from London to Holyhead, and from 1784 the mail coach used the road. The road was improved after 1810, but its use dwindled after 1820 with the coming of the railways.〔Sylvester, Dorothy. ''A History of Cheshire'' (2nd edn), pp. 83–84 (Phillimore; 1980) (ISBN 0-85033-384-9)〕 Bridgemere parish had three inns in 1765, one of which was named the Holly Bush. By 1801, there was only a single inn, which had closed by 1821.〔MacGregor, A.J. ''The Alehouses and Alehouse-keepers of Cheshire 1629–1828'', pp. 84, 89 (Caupona Publications; 1992)〕 On 28 October 1944, during World War II, a Wellington bomber from RAF Chipping Warden in Oxfordshire crashed at Prince Hill on a training exercise. A memorial to the six airmen who died in the crash was dedicated in 2003.〔(Remembering airmen who perished on Cheshire soil. ''Chester Chronicle – Cheshire Memories'' 18 April 2008 ) (accessed 30 January 2009)〕 In 1972, of land near Bridgemere Hall were landscaped and stocked with waterfowl to form Bridgemere Wildlife Park. The park expanded into a zoo before its closure in 1992.〔〔(Zoo History UK: Bridgemere Wildlife Park ) (accessed 30 January 2009)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bridgemere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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