Bridgewater or Bridgwater may refer to:

Companies

Bridgewater Associates Bridgewater Associates, LP (informally known as "Bridgewater") is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, Financial endowment, endowments, Foundation (no ...

, global investment manager * Bridgewater Systems, Canadian software company

Education

Bridgewater College Bridgewater College is a private liberal-arts college in Bridgewater, Virginia. Established in 1880, Bridgewater College admitted both men and women from the time of its founding and was the first four-year liberal arts college in Virginia to ...

, Virginia, United States * Bridgewater High School (disambiguation) *

Bridgewater State University Bridgewater State University is a public university with its main campus in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest of nine state universities in Massachusetts. Including its off-campus sites in New Bedford, Massachusetts, N ...

, Massachusetts *

Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School Bridgewater Raynham Regional High School, founded in 1961, is a regional high school in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, shared by the City of Bridgewater and the Town of Raynham. The high school, commonly referred to as B-R, relocated to a new build ...

, Massachusetts, United States

People

* Bridgewater (surname) *

Earl of Bridgewater Earl of Bridgewater was a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, once for the Daubeny family (1538) and once for the Egerton family (1617). From 1720 to 1803, the Earls of Bridgewater also held the title of Duke of Bridgewa ...

and Duke of Bridgewater, UK peerage

Places

Australia

Bridgewater, South Australia Bridgewater is a town in South Australia, located in the Adelaide Hills to the south-east of the Adelaide city centre. It is the former end of the Adelaide-Bridgewater railway line; this route was closed in 1987. The railway was converted to st ...

* Bridgewater, Tasmania, suburb of Hobart *

Bridgewater On Loddon, Victoria Bridgewater On Loddon is a town in north central Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Calder Highway, north-west of Bendigo, astride the Loddon River. At the , Bridgewater On Loddon had a population of 341. The rural area which surr ...

Cape Bridgewater __NOTOC__ Cape Bridgewater is a locality in the Australian state of Victoria located on the western shore of Bridgewater Bay about south-west of Portland and about west of Melbourne. The area was settled in the 1860s by the Henty family wh ...

, Victoria, Australia

Canada

Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Bridgewater is a town in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the navigable limit of the Lahave River, LaHave River. With a 2021 population of 8,790, Bridgewater is the largest town in the Southern Nova Scotia, South Shore region. Priding i ...

United Kingdom

Bridgwater Bridgwater is a historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. The town had a population of 41,276 at the 2021 census. Bridgwater is at the edge of the Somerset Levels, in level and well-wooded country. The town lies along both sid ...

, town and civil parish in Somerset **

Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency) Bridgwater is a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024 by Ashley Fox of the Conservative Party (UK) ...

which existed from 1885 to 2010 **

Bridgwater and West Somerset (UK Parliament constituency) Bridgwater and West Somerset was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Ian Liddell-Grainger, a Conservative. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, t ...

, current constituency for this area *

RHS Garden Bridgewater RHS Garden Bridgewater is the Royal Horticultural Society's fifth public display garden. It is located in the village of Worsley in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Gardens Bridgewater Gardens has been created in of the former Worsley Ne ...

, Greater Manchester *

Bridgewater, Banbridge Bridgewater (formerly known as The Outlet Park) is a major retail development in County Down, Northern Ireland, near Banbridge. It consists of a shopping outlet, retail park, drive-thru's and petrol stations. History The Boulevard The Boul ...

, a development in County Down, Northern Ireland

United States

Bridgewater, Connecticut Bridgewater is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,662 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 1,727 tabulated in 2010. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. Bridgewater ...

** Bridgewater (CDP), Connecticut, census-designated place * Bridgewater, Iowa *

Bridgewater, Maine Bridgewater is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 532 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Climate This ...

Bridgewater, Massachusetts Bridgewater is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city's population was 28,633. The historic town center of Bridgewater is located approximately south of Boston, Massachusetts and approxima ...

Bridgewater (CDP), Massachusetts Bridgewater was a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The CDP ceased to exist when Bridgewater was given de facto city status in 2010. The population was 7,841 at the 2010 ce ...

, census-designated place **

Bridgewater (MBTA station) Bridgewater station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, served by the Fall River/New Bedford Line. It is located on the east end of the Bridgewater State University campus along the Middleborough Main Line. History ...

* Bridgewater, Michigan, unincorporated community *

Bridgewater, New Hampshire Bridgewater is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 census. History The land comprising Bridgewater was originally part of a town known as "New Chester", which was separated into Bridgew ...

Bridgewater Township, New Jersey Bridgewater Township is a Township (New Jersey), township in Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located within the heart of the Raritan River, Raritan Valley region. Situated within Central Jersey, Cen ...

, commonly referred to as "Bridgewater" *

Bridgewater, New York Bridgewater is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 1,522 at the 2010 census. The Town of Bridgewater is on the southern border of the county. The town has a former village called Bridgewater near the southern ...

, a town **

Bridgewater (CDP), New York Bridgewater is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 470 at the 2010 census. The hamlet is within the Town of Bridgewater at the junction of U.S. Route 20 and N.Y. Route 8. It wa ...

, in the town of Bridgewater *

Bridgewater, New York (disambiguation) Bridgewater is the name of both a town in New York State and a village within that town: * Bridgewater (town), New York * Bridgewater (village), New York. {{Geodis ...

Bridgewater, Pennsylvania Bridgewater is a borough (Pennsylvania), borough in central Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, at the confluence of the Beaver River (Pennsylvania), Beaver and Ohio River, Ohio rivers. The population was 745 at the 2020 United States cen ...

* Bridgewater, South Dakota *

Bridgewater, Vermont Bridgewater is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 903 at the 2020 census. Bridgewater contains the hamlets of Bridgewater Village, Bridgewater Corners, West Bridgewater, and Bridgewater Center (formerly called B ...

Bridgewater, Virginia Bridgewater is an incorporated town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. The population was 6,596 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Harrisonburg, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. History William Magill first settled al ...

* Bridgewater Township (disambiguation) * Bridgewater Historic District (disambiguation) * Bridgewater Center (disambiguation)

Structures

Bridgewater Bridge (disambiguation) Bridgewater Bridge may refer to: ;in Australia *Bridgewater Bridge The Bridgewater Bridge is a concrete box girder bridge that carries the Midland Highway across the Derwent River in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. This bridge connects the Ho ...

Bridgewater Hall The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé ...

, a concert hall in Manchester * Bridgewater House (disambiguation) *

Bridgewater Monument The Bridgewater Monument is a Grade II* listed monumental column in the Ashridge estate in Hertfordshire, England. It was built in 1832 to commemorate Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736–1803), known as the "Canal Duke". History ...

, Hertfordshire *

Bridgewater Place Bridgewater Place, nicknamed The Dalek, is an office and residential skyscraper in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was the tallest building in Yorkshire at the time of being topped out in September 2005, but is now the second-tallest after ...

, Leeds * Bridgewater State Hospital, Massachusetts, a hospital for the criminally insane, subject of the film ''Titicut Follies''

Transportation

* , one of four East Indiamen of the British East India Company *

Bridgwater and Taunton Canal The Bridgwater and Taunton Canal is a canal in the south-west of England between Bridgwater and Taunton, Somerset, Taunton, opened in 1827 and linking the River Tone to the River Parrett. There were a number of abortive schemes to link the ...

, Somerset, England *

Port of Bridgwater The Port of Bridgwater is a port, originally located in the town of Bridgwater, Somerset, England. Created under the Bridgwater Navigation and Quays Act 1845 ( 8 & 9 Vict. c. lxxxix) it extends from Brean Down to Hinkley Point in Bridgwater Bay, ...

, Somerset, England *

Bridgewater Canal The Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, Greater Manchester, Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. It was ...

, from Preston Brook and Worsley to Manchester, England *

Bridgewater railway line The Bridgewater railway line was the name given to the "South line", the westernmost component of the Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor, Adelaide–Melbourne railway line, built in 1883 through the Adelaide Hills. The term was applied in con ...

, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia *

Bridgewater station (MBTA) Bridgewater station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, served by the Fall River/New Bedford Line. It is located on the east end of the Bridgewater State University campus along the Middleborough Main Line. History ...

, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States * Bridgewater station (New York), in Bridgewater, New York, United States * Bridgewater station (NJ Transit), in Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States * HMS ''Bridgewater'', the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, and one of the Commonwealth of England