 Nearby towns include Crewe in Cheshire, Market Drayton and Whitchurch in Shropshire, and villages include Blakenhall, Buerton and Hankelow in Cheshire, Madeley, Staffordshire and Woore, Shropshire.Bridgemere was originally a township in the ancient parish of Wybunbury in the Nantwich Hundred.During the medieval period, it had an iron foundry.