Today virtually a suburb of Taipei, Panchiao is named after a wooden bridge which connected it with Hsinchuang across the Tamsui River in olden times.
新莊在當年已是很繁榮的市集，板橋的居民、商賈們，常常要經過公館溪的枋橋頭去批貨，而「枋橋」意即「木板做成的橋」，這也就是「板橋」名稱的由來。