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Shard Bridge
A view of Shard Bridge from the northern banks of the River Wyre
Coordinates	53°51′43″N 2°57′45″W / 53.8620°N 2.9625°W / 53.8620; -2.9625
Carries	A588
Crosses	River Wyre
Locale	Singleton — Hambleton, Lancashire, England
Maintained by	Lancashire County Council
Characteristics
Design	Segmental
Longest span	714 feet (218 m)
History
Opened	1993 (31 years ago) (1993)
Location

Shard Bridge Act 1975
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend and repeal certain provisions of the Shard Bridge Act 1862; to confer new powers on the Shard Bridge Company; and for other purposes.
Citation	1975 c. xxxvi
Dates
Royal assent	12 November 1975

Shard Bridge is a bridge in the English county of Lancashire. It spans the River Wyre, connecting Singleton, on the southern side of the river, to Hambleton, on its northern side (an area known locally as "Over Wyre"), carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of the A588 Shard Road. The word shard is a Roman term for "low crossing point on a river".

The original bridge was built in 1864, and it went on to replace a ferry service between Cockle Hall and Wardleys Creek further downstream to the west.

The bridge was moved a few yards downstream in 1993, when the third iteration was constructed.

Formerly a toll bridge, Shard Bridge is now a free municipal crossing.

See also

• Shard Riverside Inn

References

1. A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and south Wyre, Nick Moore (2018), p. 21
2. "Poulton Le Fylde". Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.
3. Opening of NEW SHARD Bridge - Over Wyre - A film by John Hodgson, retrieved 11 March 2024
4. TheFylde.com Archived 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• "A photo of the original Shard Bridge and the Wardley's ferry". Archived from the original on 19 October 2012.

The 1988 New Shard Bridge scheme by Lancashire County Council:

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v t e Buildings and structures in the Borough of Wyre
Grade I	Places of worship Churchtown: St Helen St Michael's-on-Wyre: St Michael
Grade II*	Marsh Mill Places of worship Pilling: Old St John the Baptist St John the Baptist Poulton: St Chad
Grade II	Beach Lighthouse Fleetwood Museum Garstang Town Hall Hackensall Hall Hambleton Hall Mains Hall 2 Market Place Marsh Farmhouse The Mount North Euston Hotel The Olde Ship Pharos Lighthouse Poolfoot Cottage Poulton Market Cross Poulton War Memorial Raikes Farmhouse Rossall School Royal Oak Hotel, Garstang Thornton-Cleveleys War Memorial Town End Farmhouse Trunnah Farmhouse 1 Vicarage Road Wheatsheaf Inn The White House Wyresdale Park Places of worship Barnacre: All Saints Bonds: Sts Mary & Michael Fleetwood: St Mary St Nicholas St Peter Garstang: St Thomas Poulton: St John the Evangelist Preesall: St Oswald Scorton: St Peter Winmarleigh: St Luke
Unlisted	Ashley Hall Black Bull The Bull Cartford Bridge Damside Windmill Fleetwood Market Golden Ball Jean Stansfield Memorial Park Market Place, Garstang Market Place, Poulton-le-Fylde Old Town Hall Queen's Square The River House RNAS Inskip Rossall Point Observation Tower Shard Bridge Shard Riverside Inn Thatched House Winmarleigh Hall Places of worship Bilsborrow: St Hilda Thornton: Christ
Derelict or demolished	The Burn Naze Fleetwood Pier Greenhalgh Castle ICI Hillhouse Illawalla The Royal Oak Hotel, Poulton-le-Fylde Wardleys Pub Wyre Light
Listed in	Barnacre-with-Bonds Bleasdale Cabus Catterall Claughton Fleetwood Forton Garstang Great Eccleston Hambleton Inskip-with-Sowerby Kirkland Myerscough & Bilsborrow Nateby Nether Wyresdale Out Rawcliffe Pilling Poulton-le-Fylde Preesall Stalmine-with-Staynall Thornton-Cleveleys Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre Winmarleigh

v t e Buildings and structures in the Borough of Fylde
Grade I	Lytham Hall
Grade II*	Places of worship Lytham: St Cuthbert St John Kirkham: St Michael
Grade II	Burlingtons Bar By the Way Ivy House Lifeboat Memorial, Lytham Lifeboat Monument, St Annes Lytham Windmill Malt Kiln Farmhouse Railway Hotel, Kirkham St Annes-on-the-Sea Carnegie Library St Anne's Pier Places of worship Kirkham: St John the Evangelist St Annes-on-the-Sea: St Anne St Thomas Singleton: St Anne Weeton: St Michael Wesham: Christ Church Wrea Green: St Nicholas
Unlisted	Cartford Bridge The Cartford Inn The Eagle at Weeton HM Prison Kirkham Lytham Hospital Lytham St Annes Town Hall Shard Bridge Springfields Warton Aerodrome Weeton Barracks Places of worship Clifton (Lund): St John the Evangelist
Demolished	Lytham Priory Lytham Pier
Listed in	Bryning-with-Warton Elswick Freckleton Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton Kirkham Little Eccleston-with-Larbreck Lytham Medlar-with-Wesham Newton-with-Clifton Ribby-with-Wrea St Annes Singleton Staining Treales, Roseacre and Wharles Weeton-with-Preese Westby-with-Plumptons

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• Bridges across the River Wyre
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• Buildings and structures in the Borough of Fylde
• Bridges completed in 1864
• Bridges completed in 1993
• Former toll bridges in England
• Singleton, Lancashire
• Hambleton, Lancashire
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