Bryn, Greater Manchester

Bryn is a suburb of Ashton-in-Makerfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.

[3] The former Bryn (or Brynne) Hall was the seat of the Gerard family beginning in the thirteenth century or earlier.

It was a "safe house" for the English Roman Catholic martyr and saint Edmund Arrowsmith and his hand was reportedly preserved there after his execution.

On 8 September 1955 the church was consecrated and the holy relics of two early Roman martyrs – Saints Speciosi and Fructuosi, were placed in the altar stone.

By the nineteenth century Park Lane was only one of nine non-conformist chapels in the heavily recusant area.