Bridge is a ward [5] and suburb of Newark-on-Trent, in the Newark & Sherwood district in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It is one of the seven wards on Newark Town Council.
The ward covers the north and northeastern areas of the town and is notable for being the site of both the Brownhills Roundabout [6] on the A46 road and the Newark Flat Crossing between the East Coast Main Line and Nottingham-Lincoln Line. [7]
Bridge is mostly residential and industrial. It does have some retail centres including Newark Town Centre, a McDonald's on Lincoln Road [8] and Newark Northgate Retail Park also off Northgate, Trent Lane and Lincoln Road Bridge. [9]
At the 2021 census, the Bridge ward profile population was 7,342. Of the findings, the ethnicity and religious composition of the ward was:
: Bridge: 2021 Census [10] | |||||||||||||
Ethnic group | Population | % | |||||||||||
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White | 6,918 | 94.2% | |||||||||||
Asian or Asian British | 170 | 2.3% | |||||||||||
Mixed | 125 | 1.7% | |||||||||||
Black or Black British | 54 | 0.7% | |||||||||||
Other Ethnic Group | 51 | 0.7% | |||||||||||
Arab | 26 | 0.4% | |||||||||||
Total | 7,342 | 100% |
The religious composition of the ward at the 2021 Census was recorded as:
Bridge: Religion: 2021 Census | |||||||||||||
Religious | Population | % | |||||||||||
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Christian | 3,660 | 53.1% | |||||||||||
Irreligious | 2,995 | 43.5% | |||||||||||
Muslim | 121 | 1.8% | |||||||||||
Other religion | 39 | 0.6% | |||||||||||
Buddhist | 35 | 0.5% | |||||||||||
Sikh | 19 | 0.2% | |||||||||||
Hindu | 15 | 0.2% | |||||||||||
Jewish | 8 | 0.1% | |||||||||||
Total | 7,342 | 100% |
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