Community
Once a busy industrial village, with a paint and linoleum works, several quarries and clay pits for the Wigan brick company, today the village still has several factories including a weighbridge manufacturer and a caravan factory, but is rather more sleepy, its main purpose being providing housing for the many commuters who work along the M6 corridor.
Appley Bridge has two churches, (Methodist and Church of England), and is in the Deanery of Chorley, Diocese of Blackburn.
Appley Bridge railway station, opened in 1855 by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, is situated on the Southport to Manchester line. The village contains a few convenience shops, a football ground, several country pubs, and a post office. Within the area known as Shevington Vale there is a row of shops including a SPAR convenience store, a Chinese takeaway, a hairdressing salon and a pharmacy. There is also a small children's play area and football pitch opposite the Shevington Vale primary school. The Golden Days garden centre is just outside the main village on Back Lane, near the junction for the M6 Motorway. A waste paper recycling yard is also present on Appley Lane North offering free disposal of cardboard and paper as well as other services.
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