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</ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Demography</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Demography-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Demography subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Demography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Population_change" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Population_change"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Population change</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population_change-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Economy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Landmarks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Landmarks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Landmarks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Landmarks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Sport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture_and_society" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Public_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Public services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_people" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Notable people</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.1</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.2</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86" title="بولتن – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="بولتن" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="بولتون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="بولتون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%A8" title="বোল্টন – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বোল্টন" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Болтан – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Болтан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Болтан – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Болтан" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="Болтън – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Болтън" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_(Gran_Manchester)" title="Bolton (Gran Manchester) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Bolton (Gran Manchester)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_(kapital_sa_kondado)" title="Bolton (kapital sa kondado) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Bolton (kapital sa kondado)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_(Greater_Manchester)" title="Bolton (Greater Manchester) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Bolton (Greater Manchester)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="بولتون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بولتون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_(Grand_Manchester)" title="Bolton (Grand Manchester) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bolton (Grand Manchester)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B3%BC%ED%84%B4" title="볼턴 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="볼턴" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A9%D5%B8%D5%B6" title="Բոլթոն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բոլթոն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_(Greater_Manchester)" title="Bolton (Greater Manchester) – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Bolton (Greater Manchester)" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton_(Grande_Manchester)" title="Bolton (Grande Manchester) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Bolton (Grande Manchester)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F_(%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8)" title="בולטון (עיר) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בולטון (עיר)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A2%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="ბოლტონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბოლტონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" 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bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton" title="Bolton – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Bolton" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li 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data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Bolton</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">184,073 (<a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">2021 Census</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-CitPop_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CitPop-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=53.581311~-2.431938&lvl=13&sp=Point.53.581311_-2.431938_Bolton&sty=s&style=s">SD715095</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Metropolitan borough</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bolton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bolton">Bolton</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England">Metropolitan county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_West_England" title="North West England">North West</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Areas of the town</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Astley_Bridge" title="Astley Bridge">Astley Bridge</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Barrow_Bridge,_Bolton" title="Barrow Bridge, Bolton">Barrow Bridge</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Bradshaw,_Greater_Manchester" title="Bradshaw, Greater Manchester">Bradshaw</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Breightmet" title="Breightmet">Breightmet</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Bromley_Cross" title="Bromley Cross">Bromley Cross</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Burnden" title="Burnden">Burnden</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Darcy_Lever" title="Darcy Lever">Darcy Lever</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Deane,_Greater_Manchester" title="Deane, Greater Manchester">Deane</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Doffcocker" title="Doffcocker">Doffcocker</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Eagley" title="Eagley">Eagley</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Egerton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Egerton, Greater Manchester">Egerton</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Great_Lever" title="Great Lever">Great Lever</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Halliwell,_Greater_Manchester" title="Halliwell, Greater Manchester">Halliwell</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Harwood,_Greater_Manchester" title="Harwood, Greater Manchester">Harwood</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Heaton,_Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="Heaton, Bolton">Heaton</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Horrocks_Fold" title="Horrocks Fold">Horrocks Fold</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Longworth,_Lancashire" title="Longworth, Lancashire">Longworth</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Lostock,_Bolton" title="Lostock, Bolton">Lostock</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Markland_Hill" title="Markland Hill">Markland Hill</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Moss_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Moss Bank">Moss Bank</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Sharples,_Greater_Manchester" title="Sharples, Greater Manchester">Sharples</a></li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Tonge,_Bolton" title="Tonge, Bolton">Tonge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">BOLTON</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/BL_postcode_area" title="BL postcode area">BL1-BL7</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01204</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Police" title="Greater Manchester Police">Greater Manchester</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service">Greater Manchester</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/North_West_Ambulance_Service" title="North West Ambulance Service">North West</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_North_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton North East (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton North East</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_South_and_Walkden_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton South and Walkden (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton South and Walkden</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton West (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton West</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bolton.gov.uk">bolton<wbr />.gov<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Greater_Manchester" title="List of places in Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Bolton&params=53_34_42_N_2_25_48_W_region:GB_type:city(184073)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">53°34′42″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°25′48″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">53.57833°N 2.43000°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">53.57833; -2.43000</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bolton</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget 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href="/wiki/File:En-uk-Bolton.ogg" title="File:En-uk-Bolton.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">BOHL</span>-tən</i></a>, locally <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ən/: 'on' in 'button'">ən</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">BOH</span>-tən</i></a>)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShorrocks199910_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShorrocks199910-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a town in <a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> in England. In the foothills of the <a href="/wiki/West_Pennine_Moors" title="West Pennine Moors">West Pennine Moors</a>, Bolton is between <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackburn" title="Blackburn">Blackburn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wigan" title="Wigan">Wigan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bury,_Greater_Manchester" title="Bury, Greater Manchester">Bury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salford" title="Salford">Salford</a>. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bolton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bolton">borough</a>, of which Bolton is the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_centre" title="Administrative centre">administrative centre</a>. The town is within the <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">historic county</a> boundaries of <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>. </p><p>A former <a href="/wiki/Mill_town" title="Mill town">mill town</a>, Bolton has been a centre for textile production since the 14th century when <a href="/wiki/Flemish_people" title="Flemish people">Flemish</a> weavers settled in the area, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. It was a 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Boomtown" title="Boomtown">boomtown</a>, development largely coincided with the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Textile_manufacture_during_the_Industrial_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution">textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution</a>. At its peak in 1929, its 216 <a href="/wiki/Cotton_mill" title="Cotton mill">cotton mills</a> and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of <a href="/wiki/Spinning_(textiles)" title="Spinning (textiles)">cotton spinning</a> in the world. The British cotton industry declined sharply after the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> and, by the 1980s, cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in the town. </p><p>The town has a population of 184,073, whilst the wider metropolitan borough has a population of 296,169. Bolton originated as a small settlement in the moorland known as <a href="/wiki/Bolton_le_Moors" title="Bolton le Moors">Bolton le Moors</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, the town was a <a href="/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Parliamentarian</a> outpost in 1644 in a staunchly <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> region and, as a result, the Royalist <a href="/wiki/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine" title="Prince Rupert of the Rhine">Prince Rupert of the Rhine</a> led <i><a href="/wiki/Storming_of_Bolton" title="Storming of Bolton">the 1644 storming of Bolton</a></i> of 3,000 Royalist troops in which is also referred to as <i>The Bolton Massacre</i>, with 1,600 residents perished and 700 were taken prisoner. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Wanderers_F.C." title="Bolton Wanderers F.C.">Bolton Wanderers</a> football club now play home games at the <a href="/wiki/Toughsheet_Community_Stadium" title="Toughsheet Community Stadium">Toughsheet Community Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Horwich" title="Horwich">Horwich</a>. Cultural interests include the <a href="/wiki/Octagon_Theatre,_Bolton" title="Octagon Theatre, Bolton">Octagon Theatre</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Museum">Bolton Museum</a> and Art Gallery, as well as one of the earliest public libraries established after the <a href="/wiki/Public_Libraries_Act_1850" title="Public Libraries Act 1850">Public Libraries Act 1850</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Toponymy">Toponymy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Toponymy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bolton is a common Northern English name derived from the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> <span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">bothl</i></span>-<span title="Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text"><i lang="ang">tun</i></span>, meaning a settlement with a dwelling.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMills201165_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMills201165-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first recorded use of the name, in the form <i>Boelton</i>, dates from 1185 to describe Bolton le Moors, though this may not be in relation to a dwelling.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was recorded as Bothelton in 1212, Botelton in 1257, Boulton in 1288, and Bolton after 1307.<sup id="cite_ref-vchGB_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchGB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later forms of Botheltun were Bodeltown, Botheltun-le-Moors, Bowelton, Boltune, Bolton-super-Moras, Bolton-in-ye-Moors, Bolton-le-Moors.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town's motto of <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Supera Moras</i></span> means "overcome difficulties" (or "delays"), and is a pun on the Bolton-super-Moras version of the name meaning literally, "Bolton on the moors".<sup id="cite_ref-Civ_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Civ-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name itself is referred to in the <a href="/wiki/Badge_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Badge (heraldry)">badge</a> of the Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council using a form of visual pun, a <a href="/wiki/Rebus" title="Rebus">rebus</a>, in combining motifs of arrow for 'bolt' and heraldic crown for 'tun', the term for the central high point of a defensive position that is the etymon of the suffix of Bolton.<sup id="cite_ref-Civ_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Civ-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history_to_the_Civil_War">Early history to the Civil War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early history to the Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is evidence of human existence on the moors around Bolton since the early part of the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_Britain" title="Bronze Age Britain">Bronze Age</a>, including a <a href="/wiki/Stone_circle" title="Stone circle">stone circle</a> on <a href="/wiki/Cheetham_Close" title="Cheetham Close">Cheetham Close</a> above <a href="/wiki/Egerton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Egerton, Greater Manchester">Egerton</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CC2_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CC2-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Bronze Age burial mounds on <a href="/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)" title="Winter Hill (North West England)">Winter Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WHB_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WHB-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Bronze Age mound was excavated in Victorian times outside Haulgh Hall. The Romans built roads from Manchester to <a href="/wiki/Ribchester" title="Ribchester">Ribchester</a> to the east and a road along what is now the A6 to the west. It is claimed that <a href="/wiki/Gnaeus_Julius_Agricola" title="Gnaeus Julius Agricola">Agricola</a> built a fort at <a href="/wiki/Blackrod" title="Blackrod">Blackrod</a> by clearing land above the forest. Evidence of a <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxon</a> settlement exists in the form of religious objects found when the Victorian parish church was built.<sup id="cite_ref-BolParHist_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BolParHist-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1067 <a href="/wiki/Great_Bolton" title="Great Bolton">Great Bolton</a> was the property of <a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Poitou" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger de Poitou">Roger de Poitou</a> and after 1100, of Roger de Meresheys. Bolton became the property of the <a href="/wiki/Pilkington_of_Lancashire" title="Pilkington of Lancashire">Pilkington</a> family until they forfeited the land in the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>. The land was given to the <a href="/wiki/Stanley_family" title="Stanley family">Stanley family</a> and thus the <a href="/wiki/Earls_of_Derby" class="mw-redirect" title="Earls of Derby">Earls of Derby</a> who became royalists in the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>. The area surrounding Bolton was subsequently divided into four parts including the Stanley family, the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Bradford" title="Earl of Bradford">Earl of Bradford</a>, a Freeman and various other parties.<sup id="cite_ref-Vob_Desc_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vob_Desc-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Great Bolton and <a href="/wiki/Little_Bolton" title="Little Bolton">Little Bolton</a> were part of the Marsey fee, in 1212 Little Bolton was held by Roger de Bolton as plough-land, by the service of the twelfth part of a knight's fee to Randle de Marsey.<sup id="cite_ref-vchLB_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchLB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The parish church in Bolton has an early foundation although the exact date is unknown; it was given by the lord of the manor to the <a href="/wiki/Gilbertine" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilbertine">Gilbertine</a> canons of <a href="/wiki/Mattersey_Priory" title="Mattersey Priory">Mattersey Priory</a> in Nottinghamshire, founded by Roger de Marsey.<sup id="cite_ref-vchBleM_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchBleM-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe,_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe%2C_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg/220px-Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe%2C_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe%2C_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg/330px-Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe%2C_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe%2C_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg/440px-Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe%2C_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_498745.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="466" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe" title="Ye Olde Man & Scythe">Ye Olde Man & Scythe</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A charter to hold a market in Churchgate was granted on 14 December 1251 by King <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III of England</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolton became a market town and borough by a charter from the Earl of Derby, William de Ferrers, on 14 January 1253, and a market was held until the 18th century. <a href="/wiki/Burgage" title="Burgage">Burgage</a> plots were laid out on Churchgate and Deansgate in the centre of the <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> town close to where <a href="/wiki/Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe" title="Ye Olde Man & Scythe">Ye Olde Man & Scythe</a> public house, dating from 1251, is situated today.<sup id="cite_ref-Town_Hall_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Town_Hall-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1337 Flemish weavers settled and introduced the manufacture of woollen cloth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis1835_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis1835-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More Flemish weavers, fleeing the <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> persecutions, settled here in the 17th century. The second wave of settlers wove <a href="/wiki/Fustian" title="Fustian">fustian</a>, a rough cloth made of linen and cotton.<sup id="cite_ref-lewis1835_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lewis1835-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Digging <a href="/wiki/Coal" title="Coal">sea coal</a> was recorded in 1374.<sup id="cite_ref-vchGB_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchGB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was an outbreak of the plague in the town in 1623.<sup id="cite_ref-vchGB_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchGB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>, the people of Bolton were <a href="/wiki/Puritan" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritan">Puritans</a> and supported the <a href="/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Parliamentarian</a> cause.<sup id="cite_ref-vchBleM_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchBleM-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A parliamentary garrison in the town was attacked twice without success but on 28 May 1644 Prince Rupert's <a href="/wiki/Royalist" title="Royalist">Royalist</a> army with troops under the command of the <a href="/wiki/James_Stanley,_7th_Earl_of_Derby" title="James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby">Earl of Derby</a> attacked again. The attack became known as the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Massacre">Bolton Massacre</a> in which 1,500 died, 700 were taken prisoner and the town plundered.<sup id="cite_ref-lewis1835_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lewis1835-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The attackers took to referring to the town as the "Geneva of the North", referencing <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>'s dominant <a href="/wiki/Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Calvinism</a>, although historian Malcolm Hardman says this was a description borne "more of irritation than accuracy".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of the Civil War, Lord Derby was tried as a traitor at Chester and condemned to death. When his appeal for pardon to parliament was rejected he attempted to escape but was recaptured. For his part in the massacre, he was executed outside Ye Olde Man & Scythe Inn on 15 October 1651.<sup id="cite_ref-vchGB_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchGB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industrial_Revolution_onward">Industrial Revolution onward</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Industrial Revolution onward"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg/220px-Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg/330px-Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg/440px-Swan_Lane_Mills_Bolton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_175112.jpg 2x" data-file-width="595" data-file-height="311" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Swan_Lane_Mills" title="Swan Lane Mills">Swan Lane Mills</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Bolton was a 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Boomtown" title="Boomtown">boomtown</a> and, at its zenith in 1929, its 216 <a href="/wiki/Cotton_mill" title="Cotton mill">cotton mills</a> and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of <a href="/wiki/Spinning_(textiles)" title="Spinning (textiles)">cotton spinning</a> in the world. The British cotton industry declined sharply after the First World War and, by the 1980s, cotton manufacture had virtually ceased in Bolton. </p><p>A tradition of cottage spinning and weaving and improvements to spinning technology by local inventors, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Arkwright" title="Richard Arkwright">Richard Arkwright</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Crompton" title="Samuel Crompton">Samuel Crompton</a>, led to rapid growth of the textile industry in the 19th century. Crompton, whilst living at <a href="/wiki/Hall_i%27_th%27_Wood" title="Hall i' th' Wood">Hall i' th' Wood</a>, invented the <a href="/wiki/Spinning_mule" title="Spinning mule">spinning mule</a> in 1779. Streams draining the surrounding <a href="/wiki/Moorland" title="Moorland">moorland</a> into the River Croal provided the water necessary for the <a href="/wiki/Bleach" title="Bleach">bleach</a> works that were a feature of this area.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAshmore198281_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAshmore198281-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bleaching using <a href="/wiki/Chlorine" title="Chlorine">chlorine</a> was introduced in the 1790s by the Ainsworths at Halliwell Bleachworks. Bolton and the surrounding villages had more than thirty bleachworks including the <a href="/wiki/Lever_Bank_Bleach_Works" title="Lever Bank Bleach Works">Lever Bank Bleach Works</a> in the Irwell Valley.<sup id="cite_ref-SpWeb_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpWeb-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mule revolutionised cotton spinning by combining the roller drafting of Arkwright's water frame with the carriage drafting and spindle tip twisting of <a href="/wiki/James_Hargreaves" title="James Hargreaves">James Hargreaves</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Spinning_jenny" title="Spinning jenny">spinning jenny</a>, producing a high quality yarn. Self-acting mules were used in Bolton mills until the 1960s producing fine yarn.<sup id="cite_ref-SpWeb_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SpWeb-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The earliest mills were situated by the streams and river as at <a href="/wiki/Barrow_Bridge" title="Barrow Bridge">Barrow Bridge</a>, but steam power led to the construction of the large multi-storey mills and their chimneys that dominated Bolton's skyline, some of which survive today.<sup id="cite_ref-lewis1835_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lewis1835-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Growth of the textile industry was assisted by the availability of coal in the area. By 1896 John Fletcher had coal mines at <a href="/wiki/Ladyshore_Colliery" title="Ladyshore Colliery">Ladyshore</a> in <a href="/wiki/Little_Lever" title="Little Lever">Little Lever</a>; The Earl of Bradford had a coal mine at <a href="/wiki/Great_Lever" title="Great Lever">Great Lever</a>; the Darcy Lever Coal Company had mines at <a href="/wiki/Darcy_Lever" title="Darcy Lever">Darcy Lever</a> and there were coal mines at <a href="/wiki/Tonge,_Bolton" title="Tonge, Bolton">Tonge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Breightmet" title="Breightmet">Breightmet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deane,_Greater_Manchester" title="Deane, Greater Manchester">Deane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doffcocker" title="Doffcocker">Doffcocker</a>. Some of these pits were close to the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Bolton_%26_Bury_Canal" title="Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal">Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal</a> providing the owners with markets in Bolton and Manchester.<sup id="cite_ref-1896_coal_mines_list_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1896_coal_mines_list-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Coal mining declined in the 20th century. </p><p>Important transport links contributed to the growth of the town and the textile industry; the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal<sup id="cite_ref-lewis1835_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lewis1835-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> constructed in 1791, connected the town to <a href="/wiki/Bury,_Greater_Manchester" title="Bury, Greater Manchester">Bury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> providing transport for coal and other basic materials. The <a href="/wiki/Bolton_and_Leigh_Railway" title="Bolton and Leigh Railway">Bolton and Leigh Railway</a>, the oldest in Lancashire, opened to goods traffic in 1828 and <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Great_Moor_Street_railway_station" title="Bolton Great Moor Street railway station">Great Moor Street station</a> opened to passengers in 1831. The railway initially connected Bolton to the <a href="/wiki/Leeds_and_Liverpool_Canal" title="Leeds and Liverpool Canal">Leeds and Liverpool Canal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leigh,_Greater_Manchester" title="Leigh, Greater Manchester">Leigh</a>, an important link with the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Liverpool" title="Port of Liverpool">port of Liverpool</a> for the import of raw <a href="/wiki/Cotton" title="Cotton">cotton</a> from America, but was extended in 1829 to link up with the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_to_Liverpool_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester to Liverpool Line">Manchester to Liverpool Line</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lewis1835_18-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lewis1835-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Local firms built locomotives for the railway, in 1830 "Union" was built by <a href="/wiki/Rothwell,_Hick_and_Rothwell" title="Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell">Rothwell, Hick and Company</a> and two locomotives, "Salamander" and "Veteran" were built by Crook and Dean.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESweeney19968_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESweeney19968-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bolton's first Mayor, Charles James Darbishire was sympathetic to <a href="/wiki/Chartism" title="Chartism">Chartism</a> and a supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Corn_Law_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Corn Law League">Anti-Corn Law League</a>. In August 1839 Bolton was besieged by Chartist rioters and the <a href="/wiki/Riot_Act" title="Riot Act">Riot Act</a> was read and special constables sworn in. The mayor accompanied soldiers called to rescue special constables at <a href="/wiki/Little_Bolton_Town_Hall" title="Little Bolton Town Hall">Little Bolton Town Hall</a>, which was besieged by a mob, and the incident ended without bloodshed.<sup id="cite_ref-First_Mayor_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-First_Mayor-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Derby_Barracks,_Bolton" title="Derby Barracks, Bolton">Derby Barracks</a> was established in Fletcher Street in the early 1860s.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of two statues prominent on Victoria Square near <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Town_Hall" title="Bolton Town Hall">Bolton Town Hall</a> is that of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Chadwick" title="Samuel Taylor Chadwick">Samuel Taylor Chadwick</a> (1809 – 3 May 1876) a <a href="/wiki/Philanthropist" class="mw-redirect" title="Philanthropist">philanthropist</a> who donated funds to <a href="/wiki/Bolton_General_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton General Hospital">Bolton Hospital</a> to create an ear, nose and throat ward. Built houses for people living in cellars, through Bolton Council fought for better public health including cleaner water, established the Chadwick Orphanage, improved the Bolton <a href="/wiki/Workhouse" title="Workhouse">Workhouse</a> and funded the towns natural history museum that was the basis of the present <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Museum">Bolton Museum</a> at Le Mans Crescent, the original museum was in a building at <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Park,_Bolton" title="Queen's Park, Bolton">Queens Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BMJ_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMJ-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second statue at Victoria Square is in memory of a former Bolton Mayor <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Alfred_Dobson" title="Benjamin Alfred Dobson">Sir Benjamin Alfred Dobson</a> (1847–1898) who died in office in 1898, he was a textile machinery manufacturer and chairman of <a href="/wiki/Dobson_%26_Barlow" title="Dobson & Barlow">Dobson & Barlow</a>, a significant employer in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-links_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-links-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-grace_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grace-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cassidy_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cassidy-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1900 Bolton was Lancashire's third largest engineering centre after Manchester and Oldham. About 9,000 men were employed in the industry, half of them working for Dobson and Barlow in Kay Street.<sup id="cite_ref-D&B_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D&B-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another engineering company <a href="/wiki/Hick,_Hargreaves_%26_Co" class="mw-redirect" title="Hick, Hargreaves & Co">Hick, Hargreaves & Co</a> based at the Soho Foundry made Lancashire boilers and heavy machinery.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Ryder_and_Son&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Ryder and Son (page does not exist)">Thomas Ryder and Son</a> of Turner Bridge manufactured machine tools for the international motor industry. <a href="/wiki/Wrought_iron" title="Wrought iron">Wrought iron</a> was produced for more than 100 years at <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Walmsley_and_Sons" title="Thomas Walmsley and Sons">Thomas Walmsley and Sons</a>' Atlas Forge.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1911 the textile industry in Bolton employed about 36,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-mills_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mills-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 1920, the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Cardroom_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Cardroom Union">Bolton Cardroom Union</a> had more than 15,000 members, while the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Weavers%27_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Weavers' Association">Bolton Weavers' Association</a> represented 13,500 workers.<sup id="cite_ref-marsh_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marsh-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last mill to be constructed was Sir John Holden's Mill in 1927.<sup id="cite_ref-mills_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mills-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cotton industry declined from the 1920s. A brief upturn after the Second World War was not sustained, and the industry had virtually vanished by the end of the 20th century. </p><p>During the night of 26 September 1916, Bolton was the target for an aerial offensive. <a href="/wiki/LZ_61_(L_21)" title="LZ 61 (L 21)">L21</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Zeppelin" title="Zeppelin">Zeppelin</a> commanded by <a href="/wiki/Oberleutnant" title="Oberleutnant">Oberleutnant</a> Kurt Frankenburg of the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_German_Navy" title="Imperial German Navy">Imperial German Navy</a>, dropped twenty-one bombs on the town, five of them on the working class area of Kirk Street, killing thirteen residents and destroying six houses. Further attacks followed on other parts of the town, including three incendiaries dropped close to the Town Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith199116–20_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith199116–20-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lord_Leverhulme">Lord Leverhulme</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lord Leverhulme"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1899 William Lever, <a href="/wiki/William_Lever,_1st_Viscount_Leverhulme" title="William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme">Lord Leverhulme</a>, bought Hall i'th' Wood as a memorial to Samuel Crompton inventor of the spinning mule. Lever restored the dilapidated building and presented it to the town in 1902, having turned it into a museum furnished with household goods typical of domestic family life in the 16th and 17th centuries. Lever re-endowed <a href="/wiki/Bolton_School" title="Bolton School">Bolton Schools</a>, giving land and his house on Chorley New Road. He presented the town with 67 acres (270,000 m<sup>2</sup>) of land for a public park which the corporation named <a href="/wiki/Leverhulme_Park" title="Leverhulme Park">Leverhulme Park</a> in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-Lord_Leverhulme_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lord_Leverhulme-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1902 he gave the people of Bolton Lever Park at <a href="/wiki/Rivington" title="Rivington">Rivington</a>. In 1911, Lever consulted <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mawson" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Mawson">Thomas Mawson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Landscape_architect" title="Landscape architect">landscape architect</a> and lecturer in Landscape Design at the University of Liverpool, regarding <a href="/wiki/Town_planning" class="mw-redirect" title="Town planning">town planning</a> in Bolton. Mawson published "Bolton – a Study in Town Planning and Civic Art" and gave lectures entitled "Bolton Housing and Town Planning Society" which formed the basis of an illustrated book "Bolton – as it is and as it might be". In 1924, Leverhulme presented Bolton Council with an ambitious plan to rebuild the town centre based on Mawson's designs funded partly by himself. The council declined in favour of extending the town hall and building the civic centre.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayors_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayors-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_County_Borough_Council_-_coat_of_arms.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Bolton_County_Borough_Council_-_coat_of_arms.png/220px-Bolton_County_Borough_Council_-_coat_of_arms.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Bolton_County_Borough_Council_-_coat_of_arms.png 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="315" /></a><figcaption>The coat of arms of the former <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bolton" title="County Borough of Bolton">Bolton County Borough Council</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Lying within the county boundaries of <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>, until the early 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Great_Bolton" title="Great Bolton">Great Bolton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Little_Bolton" title="Little Bolton">Little Bolton</a> were two of the eighteen <a href="/wiki/Township_(England)" title="Township (England)">townships</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">ecclesiastical parish</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bolton_le_Moors" title="Bolton le Moors">Bolton le Moors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MapGB_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MapGB-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MapLB_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MapLB-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These townships were separated by the <a href="/wiki/River_Croal" title="River Croal">River Croal</a>, Little Bolton on the north bank and Great Bolton on the south.<sup id="cite_ref-vchGB_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchGB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vchLB_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchLB-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vchBleM_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchBleM-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolton <a href="/wiki/Poor_Law_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor Law Union">Poor Law Union</a> was formed on 1 February 1837. It continued using existing poorhouses at Fletcher Street and Turton but in 1856 started to build a new <a href="/wiki/Workhouse" title="Workhouse">workhouse</a> at Fishpool Farm in Farnworth. Townleys Hospital was built on the site which is now <a href="/wiki/Royal_Bolton_Hospital" title="Royal Bolton Hospital">Royal Bolton Hospital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Workhouse_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Workhouse-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1838 Great Bolton, most of Little Bolton and the Haulgh area of <a href="/wiki/Tonge_with_Haulgh" title="Tonge with Haulgh">Tonge with Haulgh</a> were incorporated under the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Corporations_Act_1835" title="Municipal Corporations Act 1835">Municipal Corporations Act 1835</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a>, the second to be created in England. Further additions were made adding part of <a href="/wiki/Rumworth" title="Rumworth">Rumworth</a> in 1872 and part of <a href="/wiki/Halliwell,_Greater_Manchester" title="Halliwell, Greater Manchester">Halliwell</a> in 1877.<sup id="cite_ref-GMCROBolton_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GMCROBolton-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bolmusBolCB_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bolmusBolCB-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1889 Bolton was granted <a href="/wiki/County_Borough" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough">County Borough</a> status and became self-governing and independent from <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_County_Council" title="Lancashire County Council">Lancashire County Council</a> jurisdiction. In 1898, the borough was extended further by adding the <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">civil parishes</a> of Breightmet, Darcy Lever, Great Lever, the rest of Halliwell, <a href="/wiki/Heaton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Heaton, Greater Manchester">Heaton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lostock,_Bolton" title="Lostock, Bolton">Lostock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middle_Hulton" title="Middle Hulton">Middle Hulton</a>, the rest of Rumworth which had been renamed Deane in 1894, Smithills, and Tonge plus Astley Bridge Urban District, and part of <a href="/wiki/Over_Hulton" title="Over Hulton">Over Hulton</a> civil parish.<sup id="cite_ref-GMCROBolton_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GMCROBolton-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bolmusBolCB_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bolmusBolCB-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bolton" title="County Borough of Bolton">County Borough of Bolton</a> was abolished in 1974 and became a constituent part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.<sup id="cite_ref-GMCROBolton_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GMCROBolton-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bolmusBolCB_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bolmusBolCB-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolton unsuccessfully applied for city status in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Metropolitan_Borough_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council">Bolton Council</a> is divided into twenty wards, each of which elects three councillors for a term of up to four years.<sup id="cite_ref-Dem_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dem-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Act_1832" title="Reform Act 1832">Reform Act of 1832</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Borough">Parliamentary Borough</a> was established.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bolton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton constituency</a> was represented by two <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs).<sup id="cite_ref-raymentsbcommons4_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-raymentsbcommons4-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Parliamentary Borough continued until 1950 when it was abolished and replaced with two parliamentary constituencies, <a href="/wiki/Bolton_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton East (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bolton_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton West (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton West</a>, each with one Member of Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-raymentsbcommons4_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-raymentsbcommons4-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1983 Bolton East was abolished and two new constituencies were created, <a href="/wiki/Bolton_North_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton North East (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton North East</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bolton_South_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolton South East (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolton South East</a> covering most of the former <a href="/wiki/Farnworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Farnworth (UK Parliament constituency)">Farnworth constituency</a>. At the same time major boundary changes also took place to Bolton West, which took over most of the former <a href="/wiki/Westhoughton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Westhoughton (UK Parliament constituency)">Westhoughton constituency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-raymentsbcommons4_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-raymentsbcommons4-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boltonwestprofile_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boltonwestprofile-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Town_twinning" class="mw-redirect" title="Town twinning">town twinning</a> scheme the local council have twinned Bolton with <a href="/wiki/Le_Mans" title="Le Mans">Le Mans</a> in France, since 1967,<sup id="cite_ref-TT1_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TT1-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Archant_twinning_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Paderborn" title="Paderborn">Paderborn</a> in Germany, since 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-TT1_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TT1-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is surrounded by several neighbouring towns and villages that together form the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bolton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bolton">Borough of Bolton</a>, of which Bolton is the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_centre" title="Administrative centre">administrative centre</a>. The town of Bolton has a population of 139,403, whilst the wider metropolitan borough has a population of 262,400. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Greater_Manchester" title="Geography of Greater Manchester">Geography of Greater Manchester</a></div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1992px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize thumbimage" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A panoramic view of Bolton and environs from the north-west, taken from Winter Hill."><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg/1982px-Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg" decoding="async" width="1982" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg/2973px-Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg/3964px-Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="31953" data-file-height="3225" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_from_Winter_Hill.jpg" title="File:Bolton from Winter Hill.jpg"> </a></div>A panoramic view of Bolton and environs from the north-west, taken from <a href="/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)" title="Winter Hill (North West England)">Winter Hill</a>.</div></div></div> <p>Close to the <a href="/wiki/West_Pennine_Moors" title="West Pennine Moors">West Pennine Moors</a>, Bolton is 10 miles (16 km) north-west of <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>. </p><p>The early name, Bolton le Moors, described the position of the town amid the low hills on the edge of the <a href="/wiki/West_Pennine_Moors" title="West Pennine Moors">West Pennine Moors</a> southeast of <a href="/wiki/Rivington_Pike" title="Rivington Pike">Rivington Pike</a> (456 m). Bolton lies on relatively flat land on both sides of the clough or steep-banked valley through which the <a href="/wiki/River_Croal" title="River Croal">River Croal</a> flows in a southeasterly direction towards the <a href="/wiki/River_Irwell" title="River Irwell">River Irwell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vchGB_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchGB-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The geological formation around Bolton consists of <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstones</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">Carboniferous</a> series and <a href="/wiki/Coal_Measures" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal Measures">Coal Measures</a>; in the northern part of Bolton the lower Coal Measures are mixed with underlying <a href="/wiki/Millstone_Grit" title="Millstone Grit">Millstone Grit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vchBleM_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchBleM-14"><span 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title="Egerton, Greater Manchester">Egerton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chapeltown,_Lancashire" title="Chapeltown, Lancashire">Chapeltown</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tottington,_Greater_Manchester" title="Tottington, Greater Manchester">Tottington</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="North"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/14px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/21px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/28px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Aspull" title="Aspull">Aspull</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blackrod" title="Blackrod">Blackrod</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="West"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/25px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/34px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span><b style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle; margin:0.75em 1em">Bolton</b><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="East"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/17px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/25px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Atherton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Atherton, Greater Manchester">Atherton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tyldesley" title="Tyldesley">Tyldesley</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Farnworth" title="Farnworth">Farnworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kearsley" title="Kearsley">Kearsley</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>Climate in the Greater Manchester area is generally similar to the <a href="/wiki/Climate_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate of England">climate of England</a>, although owing to protection from the mountains in North Wales it experiences slightly lower than average rainfall except during the summer months, when rainfall is higher than average.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWood197415_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWood197415-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolton has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round. The <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_Climate_Classification" class="mw-redirect" title="Köppen Climate Classification">Köppen Climate Classification</a> subtype for this climate is "<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification#Group_C:_Temperate/mesothermal_climates" title="Köppen climate classification">Cfb</a>" (Marine West Coast Climate/<a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">Oceanic climate</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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id="Areas_and_suburbs_of_Bolton31" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Areas and suburbs of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bolton</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astley_Bridge" title="Astley Bridge">Astley Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barrow_Bridge,_Bolton" title="Barrow Bridge, Bolton">Barrow Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breightmet" title="Breightmet">Breightmet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnden" title="Burnden">Burnden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deane,_Greater_Manchester" title="Deane, Greater Manchester">Deane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doffcocker" title="Doffcocker">Doffcocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Lever" title="Great Lever">Great Lever</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halliwell,_Greater_Manchester" title="Halliwell, Greater Manchester">Halliwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heaton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Heaton, Greater Manchester">Heaton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horrocks_Fold" title="Horrocks Fold">Horrocks Fold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lostock,_Bolton" title="Lostock, Bolton">Lostock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markland_Hill" title="Markland Hill">Markland Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rumworth" title="Rumworth">Rumworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithills" title="Smithills">Smithills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonge,_Bolton" title="Tonge, Bolton">Tonge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid 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data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2025</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 90%; text-align:center"> <caption>Bolton compared </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">2021 Census</a> </th> <th>Bolton </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bolton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bolton">Bolton<br />(borough)</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater<br />Manchester</a> </th> <th>England </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Total population</td> <td>296,000</td> <td>295,963</td> <td>2,867,752</td> <td>56,490,048 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">White</td> <td>71.9%</td> <td>72%</td> <td>76.4%</td> <td>81% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Asian</td> <td>20.1%</td> <td>19.8%</td> <td>13.5%</td> <td>9.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Black</td> <td>3.8%</td> <td>3.8%</td> <td>4.7%</td> <td>4.2% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5" style="font-size:90%;">Source: Office for National Statistics<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>At the time of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">United Kingdom Census 2001</a>, according to the <a href="/wiki/Office_for_National_Statistics" title="Office for National Statistics">Office for National Statistics</a>, the Urban Subdivision of Bolton<sup id="cite_ref-2001urbanareamap_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2001urbanareamap-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was part of the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Manchester Urban Area">Greater Manchester Urban Area</a> and had a total resident population of 139,403, of which 67,823 (48.7%) were male and 71,580 (51.3%) were female,<sup id="cite_ref-KS01_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KS01-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> living in 57,827 households.<sup id="cite_ref-2001-KS17_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2001-KS17-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The settlement occupied 4,446 hectares (17.17 sq mi), compared with 2,992 hectares (11.55 sq mi) in the 1991 census, though the 2001 Urban census area contains a large rural area to the south of the town. Its population density was 31.35 people per hectare compared with an average of 40.20 across the Greater Manchester Urban Area.<sup id="cite_ref-KS01_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KS01-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The median age of the population was 35, compared with 36 within the Greater Manchester Urban Area and 37 across England and Wales.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The majority of the population of Bolton were born in England (87.10%); 2.05% were born elsewhere within the United Kingdom, 1.45% within the rest of the European Union, and 9.38% elsewhere in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-2001birthdata_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2001birthdata-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Data on religious beliefs across the town in the 2001 census show that 67.9% declared themselves to be <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christian</a>, 12.5% stated that they were <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>, 8.6% said they held no religion, and 3.4% reported themselves as <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2001religiondata_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2001religiondata-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_change">Population change</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Population change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For earlier population figures, see <a href="/wiki/Great_Bolton" title="Great Bolton">Great Bolton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Little_Bolton" title="Little Bolton">Little Bolton</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1261442011">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:45em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;margin:0.5em auto;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold"><a href="/wiki/Population_growth" title="Population growth">Population changes</a> in Bolton since 1891</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right">Population</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1891 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">146,487</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1901 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">168,215</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+14.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1911 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">180,851</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1921 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">178,683</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.2%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right">Population</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1931 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">177,250</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1939 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">163,823</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−7.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1951 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">167,167</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1961 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">160,789</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−3.8%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right">Population</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1971 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">154,223</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−4.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1981 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">143,921</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−6.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1991 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">139,020</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−3.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2001 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">139,403</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.3%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:center">Sources: County Borough 1891–1971.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-visionboltonmbcbpop_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-visionboltonmbcbpop-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Urban Subdivision 1981–2001.<sup id="cite_ref-KS01_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KS01-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/60px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/120px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be <b>updated</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2025</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 90%; text-align:center" cellspacing="5"> <caption>Bolton compared </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">2001 UK Census</a></b></td> <td><b>Bolton</b></td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Manchester Urban Area">GM Urban Area</a></b></td> <td>England </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Population (16–74)</td> <td>97,859</td> <td>1,606,414</td> <td>35,532,091 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Full-time employment</td> <td>37.0%</td> <td>40.1%</td> <td>40.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Part-time employment</td> <td>11.7%</td> <td>11.2%</td> <td>11.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Self-employed</td> <td>6.7%</td> <td>6.6%</td> <td>8.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Unemployed</td> <td>4.2%</td> <td>3.6%</td> <td>3.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Retired</td> <td>13.0%</td> <td>13.0%</td> <td>13.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5" style="font-size:90%;">Source: Office for National Statistics<sup id="cite_ref-2001economicactivity_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2001economicactivity-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>At the time of the 2001 Census, 56,390 people resident in Bolton were in employment. Of these, 21.13% worked in the wholesale and retail trade, including repair of motor vehicles; 18.71% worked within manufacturing industry; 11.00% worked within the health and social work sector and 6.81% were employed in the transport, storage and communication industries.<sup id="cite_ref-2001industrydata_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2001industrydata-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the last quarter of the 20th century heavy industry was replaced by service-based activities including data processing, call centres, hi-tech electronics and IT companies. The town retains some traditional industries employing people in paper-manufacturing, packaging, textiles, transportation, steel foundries and building materials. Missiles were produced at the <a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a> (BAe) factory in <a href="/wiki/Lostock,_Bolton" title="Lostock, Bolton">Lostock</a>, now closed. The <a href="/wiki/Reebok" title="Reebok">Reebok</a> brand's European headquarters are located at the <a href="/wiki/Reebok_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Reebok Stadium">Reebok Stadium</a>. Bolton is also the home of the family bakery, <a href="/wiki/Warburtons" title="Warburtons">Warburtons</a>, established in 1876 on Blackburn Road. On 13 February 2003, Bolton was granted <a href="/wiki/Fairtrade_Town" title="Fairtrade Town">Fairtrade Town</a> status.<sup id="cite_ref-boltonfairtrade_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boltonfairtrade-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bolton attracts visitors to its shopping centres, markets, public houses, restaurants and cafes in the town centre as well retail parks and leisure facilities close to the town centre and in the surrounding towns and suburbs.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tourism plays a part in the economy, visitor attractions include <a href="/wiki/Hall_i%27_th%27_Wood" title="Hall i' th' Wood">Hall i' th' Wood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smithills_Hall" title="Smithills Hall">Smithills Hall</a> and Country Park, Last Drop Village, <a href="/wiki/Barrow_Bridge,_Bolton" title="Barrow Bridge, Bolton">Barrow Bridge</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Steam_Museum" title="Bolton Steam Museum">Bolton Steam Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Steam_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steam-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are several regeneration projects planned for Bolton over the next ten years, including Church Wharf by Ask Developments and Bluemantle<sup id="cite_ref-Church_Wharf_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Church_Wharf-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Merchant's Quarter by local developer Charles Topham group, which together will contribute 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m<sup>2</sup>) of business space.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bolton Innovation Zone is a large £300 million development with the University of Bolton at its core. Bolton is pursuing major redevelopment projects in its town centre, including the regeneration of Crompton Place and Church Wharf areas, aimed at promoting residential, commercial, and leisure spaces.<sup id="cite_ref-Place_Guild_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Place_Guild-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Grade_I_listed_buildings_in_Greater_Manchester" title="Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester">Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_Greater_Manchester" title="Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester">Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_Greater_Manchester" title="List of public art in Greater Manchester">List of public art in Greater Manchester</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Smithills_Hall_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Smithills_Hall_1.jpg/250px-Smithills_Hall_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Smithills_Hall_1.jpg/330px-Smithills_Hall_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Smithills_Hall_1.jpg/500px-Smithills_Hall_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The 14th-century <a href="/wiki/Smithills_Hall" title="Smithills Hall">Smithills Hall</a> is now a museum.</figcaption></figure> <p>Situated in the town centre on the site of a former market is the <a href="/wiki/Grade_II*" class="mw-redirect" title="Grade II*">Grade II*</a> listed <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Town_Hall" title="Bolton Town Hall">town hall</a>, an imposing <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">neoclassical</a> building designed by William Hill and opened in June 1873 by <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VII of the United Kingdom">Albert Edward, Prince of Wales</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Town_Hall_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Town_Hall-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1930s the building was extended by <a href="/wiki/Bradshaw_Gass_%26_Hope" title="Bradshaw Gass & Hope">Bradshaw Gass & Hope</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Town_Hall_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Town_Hall-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-alberthalls_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alberthalls-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Within the Town Hall are the 'Albert Halls and several function rooms. The original, single Albert Hall was destroyed by fire on 14 November 1981. After rebuilding work, it was replaced by the present <b>Albert Halls</b>, which were opened in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-alberthalls_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alberthalls-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The halls underwent a major restoration project, reopening in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Great Hall of <a href="/wiki/Smithills_Hall" title="Smithills Hall">Smithills Hall</a> was built in the 14th century when William de Radcliffe received the Manor of Smithills from the Hultons, the chapel dates from the 16th century and was extended during the 19th. Smithills Hall was where, in 1555, <a href="/wiki/George_Marsh_(martyr)" title="George Marsh (martyr)">George Marsh</a> was tried for heresy during the <a href="/wiki/Marian_Persecutions" class="mw-redirect" title="Marian Persecutions">Marian Persecutions</a>. After being "examined" at Smithills, according to local tradition, George Marsh stamped his foot so hard to re-affirm his faith, that a footprint was left in the stone floor. It is a Grade I listed building and is now a museum.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smithills_Hall_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smithills_Hall-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hall_i%27_th%27_Wood" title="Hall i' th' Wood">Hall i' th' Wood</a>, now a museum, is a late mediaeval yeoman farmer's house built by Laurence Brownlow. Around 1637 it was owned by the Norris family, who added the stone west wing. In the 18th century it was divided up into tenements. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Crompton" title="Samuel Crompton">Samuel Crompton</a> lived and worked there. In the 19th century it deteriorated further until in 1895 it was bought by industrialist <a href="/wiki/William_Hesketh_Lever" class="mw-redirect" title="William Hesketh Lever">William Hesketh Lever</a>, who restored it and presented it to <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bolton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bolton">Bolton Council</a> in 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bolton's 26 conservation areas contain 700 listed buildings, many of which are in the town centre, and there is parkland including the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Park,_Bolton" title="Queen's Park, Bolton">Queen's Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leverhulme_Park" title="Leverhulme Park">Leverhulme Park</a> and other open spaces in the surrounding area.<sup id="cite_ref-Parks_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parks-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-conservation_areas_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-conservation_areas-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These include Le Mans Crescent, Ye Olde Man & Scythe, Little Bolton Town Hall, the Market Place, Wood Street and <a href="/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Bolton" title="Holy Trinity Church, Bolton">Holy Trinity Church</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Market_Hall" title="Bolton Market Hall">The Market Hall</a> of 1854 is a Grade II listed building.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Outside the town centre can be found Mere Hall, <a href="/wiki/10_Firwood_Fold" title="10 Firwood Fold">Firwood Fold</a>, Haulgh Hall, Park Cottage, St Mary's Church, Deane, Lostock Hall Gatehouse and <a href="/wiki/Church_of_All_Souls,_Bolton" title="Church of All Souls, Bolton">All Souls Church</a>. Notable mills still overlooking parts of the town are Sir John Holden's Mill<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Swan_Lane_Mills" title="Swan Lane Mills">Swan Lane Mills</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most views northwards are dominated by Rivington Pike and the <a href="/wiki/Winter_Hill_TV_Mast" class="mw-redirect" title="Winter Hill TV Mast">Winter Hill TV Mast</a> on the West Pennine Moors above the town.<sup id="cite_ref-pike_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pike-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bolton is well served by the local road network and national routes. The <a href="/wiki/A6_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A6 road (Great Britain)">A6</a>, a major north–south <a href="/wiki/Trunk_road" title="Trunk road">trunk road</a>, passes to the west through Hunger Hill and Westhoughton. The <a href="/wiki/A666_road" title="A666 road">A666</a> <a href="/wiki/Dual_carriageway" title="Dual carriageway">dual carriageway</a>, is a spur to and from the <a href="/wiki/M61_motorway" title="M61 motorway">M61</a> <a href="/wiki/M60_motorway" class="mw-redirect" title="M60 motorway">motorway</a> through the town centre to Astley Bridge, Egerton, Darwen and Blackburn. The M61 has three dedicated junctions serving the borough. </p><p>A network of local buses coordinated by <a href="/wiki/Transport_for_Greater_Manchester" title="Transport for Greater Manchester">Transport for Greater Manchester</a> serves the Bolton district and beyond;<sup id="cite_ref-Bus_Stn_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bus_Stn-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> bus operators include <a href="/wiki/Go_North_West" title="Go North West">Go North West</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diamond_North_West" title="Diamond North West">Diamond North West</a>, both under the <a href="/wiki/TfGM" class="mw-redirect" title="TfGM">TfGM</a> branding of <a href="/wiki/Bee_Network" title="Bee Network">Bee Network</a>. Bolton is also served by the <a href="/wiki/National_Express_Coaches" title="National Express Coaches">National Express</a> coach network. The bus station on <a href="/wiki/Bolton_bus_station" title="Bolton bus station">Moor Lane</a> was scheduled to be replaced by a new interchange in the town centre next to the railway station by the end of 2014, at a cost of £48 million.<sup id="cite_ref-BusInterchange_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BusInterchange-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Interchange" title="Bolton Interchange">Bolton Interchange</a> is managed by <a href="/wiki/Northern_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern (train operating company)">Northern</a>; the railway station is part of a town centre <a href="/wiki/Transport_interchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Transport interchange">transport interchange</a> with services to Manchester, Wigan, Southport, Kirkby, Blackburn, Preston, Blackpool, Barrow in Furness, Windermere, Glasgow, Edinburgh and intermediate stations operated by Northern and <a href="/wiki/TransPennine_Express" title="TransPennine Express">TransPennine Express</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Live_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Live-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Station_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Station-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Bolton" title="List of schools in Bolton">List of schools in Bolton</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bolton_School" title="Bolton School">Bolton School</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Private_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Private schools in the United Kingdom">private day school</a>, was founded on a site next to the parish church in 1524 as a grammar school for boys; it merged around 1656 with a free grammar school (Lever's grammar) that had been founded shortly after 1641.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-school_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-school-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1898, it moved to its present site in Chorley New Road, and in 1913 merged with Bolton Girls' Day School.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1855 the Bolton Church Institute was founded by Canon <a href="/wiki/James_Slade" title="James Slade">James Slade</a> near to the parish church. The school became <a href="/wiki/Canon_Slade_School" title="Canon Slade School">Canon Slade School</a>, which has since relocated to <a href="/wiki/Bradshaw,_Greater_Manchester" title="Bradshaw, Greater Manchester">Bradshaw</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CSS_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSS-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town's other secondary schools include <a href="/wiki/Bolton_St_Catherine%27s_Academy" title="Bolton St Catherine's Academy">Bolton St Catherine's Academy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ladybridge_High_School" title="Ladybridge High School">Ladybridge High School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rivington_and_Blackrod_High_School" title="Rivington and Blackrod High School">Rivington and Blackrod High School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sharples_School" title="Sharples School">Sharples School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smithills_School" title="Smithills School">Smithills School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thornleigh_Salesian_College" title="Thornleigh Salesian College">Thornleigh Salesian College</a>, and <a href="/wiki/University_Collegiate_School" title="University Collegiate School">University Collegiate School</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bolton_College" title="Bolton College">Bolton College</a> provides further education from sites throughout the borough.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Sixth_Form_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Sixth Form College">Bolton Sixth Form College</a> comprises the Town Centre Campus and Farnworth Campus.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Bolton_TIC" title="Bolton TIC">Bolton TIC</a> (Technical Innovation Centre), opened in 2006, supports local schools by providing additional technical training.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Bolton">University of Bolton</a>, formerly the Bolton Institute of Higher Education, gained university status in 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_churches_in_Greater_Manchester" title="List of churches in Greater Manchester">List of churches in Greater Manchester</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg/250px-Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg/330px-Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg/500px-Bolton_Parish_Church_2007.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1810" data-file-height="2516" /></a><figcaption>Bolton Parish Church</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_Parish_Church,_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Bolton_Parish_Church%2C_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg/220px-Bolton_Parish_Church%2C_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Bolton_Parish_Church%2C_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg/330px-Bolton_Parish_Church%2C_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Bolton_Parish_Church%2C_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg/440px-Bolton_Parish_Church%2C_Nave_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3123663.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Bolton Parish Church Interior</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 90%;"> <caption>Religion in Bolton 2001<sup id="cite_ref-Bolton2001_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bolton2001-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">UK Census 2001</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Bolton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Bolton">Bolton <br />(borough)</a></th> <th><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater <br />Manchester</a></th> <th>England </th></tr> <tr> <td>Christian</td> <td>74.56%</td> <td>78.01%</td> <td>71.74% </td></tr> <tr> <td>No religion</td> <td>8.75%</td> <td>10.48%</td> <td>14.59% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Muslim</td> <td>7.07%</td> <td>3.04%</td> <td>3.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Buddhist</td> <td>0.10%</td> <td>0.18%</td> <td>0.28% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hindu</td> <td>2.00%</td> <td>0.40%</td> <td>1.11% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jewish</td> <td>0.06%</td> <td>0.42%</td> <td>0.52% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sikh</td> <td>0.03%</td> <td>0.10%</td> <td>0.67% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other religions</td> <td>0.15%</td> <td>0.16%</td> <td>0.29% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Religion not stated</td> <td>7.28%</td> <td>7.23%</td> <td>7.69% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>There is evidence from Saxon times of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> churches and at the time of the Civil War a Puritan and <a href="/wiki/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)" title="Nonconformist (Protestantism)">nonconformist</a> presence in the town. The <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarians</a> were among the early dissenting congregations which eventually included <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodists</a>, Baptists, Seventh Day Adventist and other denominations. More than forty churches were built during the Victorian era, but some have now been closed, demolished or converted to other uses.<sup id="cite_ref-Bolton_Faith_Trail_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bolton_Faith_Trail-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-genuki_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-genuki-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Today, the parish of <a href="/wiki/Bolton-le-Moors" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton-le-Moors">Bolton-le-Moors</a> covers a small area in the town centre,<sup id="cite_ref-acnyBleM_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acnyBleM-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but until the 19th century it covered a much larger area, divided into eighteen chapelries and townships.<sup id="cite_ref-vchBleM_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchBleM-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-boltonparishes_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boltonparishes-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The neighbouring ancient parish of <a href="/wiki/Deane,_Greater_Manchester" title="Deane, Greater Manchester">Deane</a> centred around <a href="/wiki/St_Mary_the_Virgin%27s_Church,_Deane" title="St Mary the Virgin's Church, Deane">St Mary's Church</a> once covered a large area to the west and south of Bolton,<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the township of <a href="/wiki/Great_Lever" title="Great Lever">Great Lever</a> was part of the ancient parish of <a href="/wiki/Middleton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Middleton, Greater Manchester">Middleton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-boltonparishes_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boltonparishes-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Bolton" title="St Peter's Church, Bolton">Church of St Peter</a>, commonly known as Bolton Parish Church, is an example of the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">gothic revival style</a>. Built between 1866 and 1871 of <a href="/wiki/Longridge" title="Longridge">Longridge</a> stone to designs by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Graham_Paley" title="Edward Graham Paley">Paley</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Church_(building)" title="Church (building)">church</a> is 67 ft (20.4 m) in width, 156 ft (47.5 m) in length, and 82 ft (25.0 m) in height. The <a href="/wiki/Bell_tower" title="Bell tower">tower</a> is 180 ft (54.9 m) high with 13 <a href="/wiki/Church_bell" title="Church bell">bells</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BolParHist_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BolParHist-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first church on the same site was built in <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> times. It was rebuilt in <a href="/wiki/Normans" title="Normans">Norman</a> times and again in the early 15th century. Little is known of the first two earlier churches, but the third building was a solid, squat building with a sturdy square tower at the west end. It was modified over the years until it fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-vchBleM_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vchBleM-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fragments of stone and other artefacts from these first three buildings are displayed in the museum corner of the present church.<sup id="cite_ref-BolParHist_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BolParHist-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>St Mary's Deane, once the only church in a parish of ten townships in the hundred of Salford, is a church established in Saxon times. The current building dates from 1250 with extensions and restoration in the 19th century and is a <a href="/wiki/Grade_II#England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Grade II">Grade II*</a> <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>St George's Church was built between 1794 and 1796 when Little Bolton was a separate township. Built by Peter Rothwell and paid for by the Ainsworth family.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1975 it was leased to Bolton Council, and became a craft centre in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHartwellHydePevsner2004_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHartwellHydePevsner2004-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Church,_Bolton" title="St Patrick's Church, Bolton">St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church</a> on Great Moor Street, was built in 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-stock1_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stock1-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The New Zakaria Mosque, the first mosque in Bolton, served the Muslim community from Pakistan and India from the 1960s. The first place of worship for Hindus was in the former St Barnabas Church, converted into a Hindu temple.<sup id="cite_ref-Bolton_Faith_Trail_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bolton_Faith_Trail-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Wanderers_F.C." title="Bolton Wanderers F.C.">Bolton Wanderers F.C.</a> is an <a href="/wiki/English_Football_League_teams" class="mw-redirect" title="English Football League teams">English Football League</a> club which was formed in 1874 and for 102 years played at <a href="/wiki/Burnden_Park" title="Burnden Park">Burnden Park</a>. The club moved to the <a href="/wiki/Toughsheet_Community_Stadium" title="Toughsheet Community Stadium">Toughsheet Community Stadium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Horwich" title="Horwich">Horwich</a> in 1997. The club has won four <a href="/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cups</a>, the most recent in 1958, and spent 73 seasons in the top division of the English league – more than any club never to have been league champions.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Hockey_Club" title="Bolton Hockey Club">Bolton Hockey Club</a> fields women's, men's, and junior teams and has more than 120 playing members.<sup id="cite_ref-BHC_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BHC-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town has a local cricket leagues, the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Cricket_League" title="Bolton Cricket League">Bolton Cricket League</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolton also has a <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> club, <a href="/wiki/Bolton_rugby_club" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton rugby club">Bolton RUFC</a> formed in 1872 situated on Avenue Street. The club operates four senior teams, as well as women's and junior sections.<sup id="cite_ref-Brfu_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brfu-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Robots_of_Doom" title="Bolton Robots of Doom">Bolton Robots of Doom</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> club started in 2003, playing home games at Stapleton Avenue. In addition to the adult team there is a junior team, Bolton Bears. Baseball in Bolton dates back to 1938 with a team called Bolton Scarlets.<sup id="cite_ref-BB_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BB-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An American football team, the Bolton Bulldogs, plays home games at Smithills School operating varsity and junior varsity teams.<sup id="cite_ref-BAF_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BAF-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Motorcycle_speedway" title="Motorcycle speedway">Speedway racing</a>, known as Dirt Track Racing, was staged at <a href="/wiki/Raikes_Park_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium">Raikes Park</a> in the pioneering days of 1928, but the speedway was short-lived.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom">Greyhound racing</a> took place at the <a href="/wiki/Raikes_Park_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium">Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium</a> from 1927 until 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture_and_society">Culture and society</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Culture and society"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg/250px-Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg/375px-Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg/500px-Bolton_Civic_Centre1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="670" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption>Bolton Civic Centre in 1994, Le Mans Crescent</figcaption></figure> <p>According to a survey of the <a href="/wiki/British_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="British Association for the Advancement of Science">British Association for the Advancement of Science</a>, Boltonians are the friendliest people in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-boltonfriendliest_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boltonfriendliest-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Spender" title="Humphrey Spender">Humphrey Spender</a> photographed Bolton calling it <i>Worktown</i> for the <a href="/wiki/Mass-Observation" title="Mass-Observation">Mass-Observation</a> Project, a social research organisation which aimed to record everyday life in Britain. His photographs provide a record of ordinary people living and working in a British pre-War industrial town.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bolton has several theatres including the <a href="/wiki/Octagon_Theatre,_Bolton" title="Octagon Theatre, Bolton">Octagon</a> and independent groups such as <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Little_Theatre" title="Bolton Little Theatre">Bolton Little Theatre</a> and the Phoenix Theatre Company. Comedian <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kay" title="Peter Kay">Peter Kay</a> was a member of the Octagon youth theatre and worked in the box office for about four months, until being dismissed. Actress <a href="/wiki/Maxine_Peake" title="Maxine Peake">Maxine Peake</a> made her professional debut at the Octagon and director <a href="/wiki/Danny_Boyle" title="Danny Boyle">Danny Boyle</a> was inspired to start his career when he worked there as an usher.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inside the Town Hall there is a theatre and conference complex, the Albert Halls. Le Mans Crescent, home to the central library, museum, art gallery, aquarium, magistrates' court and town hall, is to be the centre of a new Cultural Quarter. The library and museum are to be extended into the area now occupied by the Magistrates Court. <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Museum">Bolton Museum</a> and Art Gallery houses a collection of local and international art.<sup id="cite_ref-Museums_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Museums-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Steam_Museum" title="Bolton Steam Museum">Bolton Steam Museum</a> houses a variety of preserved <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engines</a> in part of the old Atlas Mill.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A noted 1953 painting by <a href="/wiki/L._S._Lowry" title="L. S. Lowry">L. S. Lowry</a> depicts match-day crowds at <a href="/wiki/Burnden_Park" title="Burnden Park">Burnden Park</a>, the former home stadium of <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Wanderers_Football_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Wanderers Football Club">Bolton Wanderers Football Club</a>. The painting is in the collection of <a href="/wiki/The_Lowry" title="The Lowry">The Lowry</a> arts centre in <a href="/wiki/Salford" title="Salford">Salford</a>, and was exhibited at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bolton Central Library was one of the earliest public libraries established after the <a href="/wiki/Public_Libraries_Act_1850" title="Public Libraries Act 1850">Public Libraries Act 1850</a>, opening in October 1853 in the Exchange Building on the old market square (Victoria Square) before moving to Le Mans Crescent in July 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunne1978_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunne1978-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bolton Symphony Orchestra performs regular concerts at the Albert Halls and Victoria Hall in the town centre.<sup id="cite_ref-BS_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BS-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2008 BBC Radio 3 Adult Choir of the Year<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and five times gold-medal winning barbershop chorus The Cottontown Chorus is based in Bolton.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bolton Community and Voluntary Services supports voluntary and community activities.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A network of volunteer groups look after the environment in Bolton supported by Bolton Green Umbrella.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first <a href="/wiki/Bolton_Pride" title="Bolton Pride">Bolton LGBT+ Pride</a> was held in 2015 and has been an ongoing annual event which since its second year has included a parade and live music.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BMBC_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMBC-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The fictional village of Newbank in <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Coningsby_(novel)" title="Coningsby (novel)">Coningsby</a></i> was based in part on the industrial village of <a href="/wiki/Barrow_Bridge,_Bolton" title="Barrow Bridge, Bolton">Barrow Bridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Disraeli_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Disraeli-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Spring_and_Port_Wine_(film)" title="Spring and Port Wine (film)">Spring and Port Wine</a></i> by playwright, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Naughton" title="Bill Naughton">Bill Naughton</a> was filmed and set in Bolton and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Family_Way" title="The Family Way">The Family Way</a></i> based on Naughton's play <i>All in Good Time</i> was also filmed and set in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-Naughton_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naughton-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kay" title="Peter Kay">Peter Kay</a> filmed comedy TV series <i><a href="/wiki/That_Peter_Kay_Thing" title="That Peter Kay Thing">That Peter Kay Thing</a></i> in the town. </p><p>Bolton has been used as a setting for film and television drama. Le Mans Crescent has featured as a London street in the <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Brett" title="Jeremy Brett">Jeremy Brett</a> version of <a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes" title="Sherlock Holmes">Sherlock Holmes</a>, a Russian secret service building in the 1990s comedy series <i>Sleepers</i> and in <i>Peaky Blinders</i> in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1990s BBC drama <i>Between the Lines</i> filmed an episode in Victoria Square.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town's daily newspaper is <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bolton_News" title="The Bolton News">The Bolton News</a></i>, formerly the <i><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Evening_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Evening News">Bolton Evening News</a></i>. There is a weekly free paper, the <i>Bolton Journal</i> and Bolton Council's monthly newspaper, <i>Bolton Scene</i>. The town is part of the <a href="/wiki/BBC_North_West" title="BBC North West">BBC North West</a> and <a href="/wiki/Granada_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Granada Television">ITV Granada</a> television regions, served by the <a href="/wiki/Winter_Hill_TV_Mast" class="mw-redirect" title="Winter Hill TV Mast">Winter Hill transmitter</a> near <a href="/wiki/Belmont,_Lancashire" title="Belmont, Lancashire">Belmont</a>. Local radio is provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Manchester" title="BBC Radio Manchester">BBC Radio Manchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Lancashire" title="BBC Radio Lancashire">BBC Radio Lancashire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capital_Manchester_and_Lancashire" title="Capital Manchester and Lancashire">Capital Manchester and Lancashire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heart_North_West" title="Heart North West">Heart North West</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_Greater_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest Hits Radio Greater Manchester">Greatest Hits Radio Greater Manchester</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Tower_FM" title="Tower FM">Tower FM</a>), which broadcasts across Bolton and <a href="/wiki/Bury,_Greater_Manchester" title="Bury, Greater Manchester">Bury</a>. Community based radio station <a href="/wiki/96.5_Bolton_FM" title="96.5 Bolton FM">Bolton FM</a> began broadcasting in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-bfm_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bfm-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_services">Public services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Public services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Healthcare_in_Greater_Manchester" title="Healthcare in Greater Manchester">Healthcare in Greater Manchester</a></div> <p>Bolton is policed by the Bolton Division of <a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Police" title="Greater Manchester Police">Greater Manchester Police</a>. The statutory emergency fire and rescue service is provided by the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service">Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service</a>, from Bolton Central, Bolton North, Horwich and Farnworth Fire Stations.<sup id="cite_ref-fire_136-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fire-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hospital services are provided by the <a href="/wiki/Bolton_NHS_Foundation_Trust" title="Bolton NHS Foundation Trust">Bolton NHS Foundation Trust</a>, which provides <a href="/wiki/Emergency_department" title="Emergency department">Accident and Emergency</a> and other services at Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth.<sup id="cite_ref-Boltonnhs_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boltonnhs-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Community health services, including GPs, district and community nurses, dentists and pharmacists, are co-ordinated by the Bolton Primary Care Trust.<sup id="cite_ref-Bpct_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bpct-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Waste management is co-ordinated by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority.<sup id="cite_ref-gmwda_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gmwda-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bolton's Distribution Network Operator for electricity is Electricity North West Ltd.<sup id="cite_ref-grid_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grid-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> United Utilities manage Bolton's drinking and waste water.<sup id="cite_ref-UU_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UU-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="List of people from Bolton">List of people from Bolton</a></div> <p>Among the notable people born in Bolton are the Protestant martyr <a href="/wiki/George_Marsh_(martyr)" title="George Marsh (martyr)">George Marsh</a>, 1515–55,<sup id="cite_ref-Smithills_Hall_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smithills_Hall-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the inventor of the spinning mule that revolutionised the textile industry, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Crompton" title="Samuel Crompton">Samuel Crompton</a>, 1753–1827,<sup id="cite_ref-Crompton_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crompton-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and industrialist <a href="/wiki/William_Lever,_1st_Viscount_Leverhulme" title="William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme">Lord Leverhulme</a> of Bolton-le-Moors, 1851–1925.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayors_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mayors-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>More recently, people born and raised in Bolton include <a href="/wiki/Fred_Dibnah" title="Fred Dibnah">Fred Dibnah</a>, a steeplejack who became a popular television historian of Britain's industrial past;<sup id="cite_ref-FD_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FD-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> world champion boxer <a href="/wiki/Amir_Khan_(British_boxer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Amir Khan (British boxer)">Amir Khan</a>, who became the <a href="/wiki/List_of_WBA_world_champions" title="List of WBA world champions">WBA World</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_super_lightweight_boxing_champions" class="mw-redirect" title="List of super lightweight boxing champions">light-welterweight champion</a> on 18 July 2009 at the age of 22, making him Britain's third-youngest world champion boxer;<sup id="cite_ref-Amir_Khan_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amir_Khan-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> comedian <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kay" title="Peter Kay">Peter Kay</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-PK_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PK-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and president of the <a href="/wiki/International_Paralympic_Committee" title="International Paralympic Committee">International Paralympic Committee</a> <a href="/wiki/Philip_Craven" title="Philip Craven">Philip Craven</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Playwright and author <a href="/wiki/Bill_Naughton" title="Bill Naughton">Bill Naughton</a> was born in Ireland but brought up in Bolton from an early age.<sup id="cite_ref-Naughton_132-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Naughton-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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C. (1991), <i>Zeppelins over Lancashire</i>, Neil Richardson, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85216-066-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-85216-066-7"><bdi>1-85216-066-7</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Zeppelins+over+Lancashire&rft.pub=Neil+Richardson&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=1-85216-066-7&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Peter+J.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABolton" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSweeney1996" class="citation cs2">Sweeney, D. J. (1996), <i>A Lancashire Triangle Part One</i>, Triangle Publishing, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9529333-0-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9529333-0-4"><bdi>978-0-9529333-0-4</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Lancashire+Triangle+Part+One&rft.pub=Triangle+Publishing&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-9529333-0-4&rft.aulast=Sweeney&rft.aufirst=D.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABolton" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWood1974" class="citation cs2">Wood, C. M. (1974), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=KeNRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15"><i>The Geography of Pollution: A Study of Greater Manchester</i></a>, Manchester University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780719005640" title="Special:BookSources/9780719005640"><bdi>9780719005640</bdi></a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240528053332/https://books.google.com/books?id=KeNRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false">archived</a> from the original on 28 May 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 March</span> 2016</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Geography+of+Pollution%3A+A+Study+of+Greater+Manchester&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=9780719005640&rft.aulast=Wood&rft.aufirst=C.+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DKeNRAQAAIAAJ%26pg%3DPA15&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABolton" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSouthern1975" class="citation book cs2">Southern, Christine (1975), <i>The Changing Face of Bolton</i>, Hendon Publishing Lancs., <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-902907-76-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-902907-76-X"><bdi>0-902907-76-X</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Changing+Face+of+Bolton&rft.pub=Hendon+Publishing+Lancs.&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0-902907-76-X&rft.aulast=Southern&rft.aufirst=Christine&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABolton" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bolton&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 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title="Clifton, Greater Manchester">Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didsbury" title="Didsbury">Didsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Denton, Greater Manchester">Denton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Droylsden" title="Droylsden">Droylsden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dukinfield" title="Dukinfield">Dukinfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eccles,_Greater_Manchester" title="Eccles, Greater Manchester">Eccles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Failsworth" title="Failsworth">Failsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farnworth" title="Farnworth">Farnworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatley" title="Gatley">Gatley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golborne" title="Golborne">Golborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hale,_Greater_Manchester" title="Hale, Greater Manchester">Hale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hale_Barns" title="Hale Barns">Hale Barns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harwood,_Greater_Manchester" title="Harwood, Greater Manchester">Harwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haughton_Green" title="Haughton Green">Haughton Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Grove" title="Hazel Grove">Hazel Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heald_Green" title="Heald Green">Heald Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heywood,_Greater_Manchester" title="Heywood, Greater Manchester">Heywood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindley,_Greater_Manchester" title="Hindley, Greater Manchester">Hindley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horwich" title="Horwich">Horwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyde,_Greater_Manchester" title="Hyde, Greater Manchester">Hyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ince-in-Makerfield" title="Ince-in-Makerfield">Ince-in-Makerfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irlam" title="Irlam">Irlam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearsley" title="Kearsley">Kearsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leigh,_Greater_Manchester" title="Leigh, Greater Manchester">Leigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Littleborough,_Greater_Manchester" title="Littleborough, Greater Manchester">Littleborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Hulton" title="Little Hulton">Little Hulton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Lever" title="Little Lever">Little Lever</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowton" title="Lowton">Lowton</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marple,_Greater_Manchester" title="Marple, Greater Manchester">Marple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middleton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Middleton, Greater Manchester">Middleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milnrow" title="Milnrow">Milnrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mossley" title="Mossley">Mossley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldham" title="Oldham">Oldham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orrell,_Greater_Manchester" title="Orrell, Greater Manchester">Orrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partington" title="Partington">Partington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pendlebury" title="Pendlebury">Pendlebury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prestwich" title="Prestwich">Prestwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radcliffe,_Greater_Manchester" title="Radcliffe, Greater Manchester">Radcliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsbottom" title="Ramsbottom">Ramsbottom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reddish" title="Reddish">Reddish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochdale" title="Rochdale">Rochdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romiley" title="Romiley">Romiley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royton" title="Royton">Royton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sale,_Greater_Manchester" title="Sale, Greater Manchester">Sale</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Salford" title="Salford">Salford</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaw_and_Crompton" title="Shaw and Crompton">Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shevington" title="Shevington">Shevington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stalybridge" title="Stalybridge">Stalybridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standish,_Greater_Manchester" title="Standish, Greater Manchester">Standish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stockport" title="Stockport">Stockport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stretford" title="Stretford">Stretford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swinton,_Greater_Manchester" title="Swinton, Greater Manchester">Swinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timperley" title="Timperley">Timperley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tottington,_Greater_Manchester" title="Tottington, Greater Manchester">Tottington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyldesley" title="Tyldesley">Tyldesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urmston" title="Urmston">Urmston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walkden" title="Walkden">Walkden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westhoughton" title="Westhoughton">Westhoughton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitefield,_Greater_Manchester" title="Whitefield, Greater Manchester">Whitefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wigan" title="Wigan">Wigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worsley" title="Worsley">Worsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wythenshawe" title="Wythenshawe">Wythenshawe</a><br /><i>See also:</i> <b><a href="/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Greater_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="List of civil parishes in Greater Manchester">List of civil parishes in Greater Manchester</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/River_Beal" title="River Beal">Beal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Bollin" title="River Bollin">Bollin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Croal" title="River Croal">Croal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Douglas,_Lancashire" title="River Douglas, Lancashire">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Etherow" title="River Etherow">Etherow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Goyt" title="River Goyt">Goyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Irk" title="River Irk">Irk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_Irwell" title="River Irwell">Irwell</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Museum">Bolton Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Steam_Museum" title="Bolton Steam Museum">Bolton Steam Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Union_Mill,_Bolton" title="Bolton Union Mill, Bolton">Bolton Union Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Century_Mill,_Farnworth" title="Century Mill, Farnworth">Century Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagley_Mills" title="Eagley Mills">Eagley Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farnworth_Town_Hall" title="Farnworth Town Hall">Farnworth Town Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_Firwood_Fold" title="10 Firwood Fold">10 Firwood Fold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15_Firwood_Fold" title="15 Firwood Fold">15 Firwood Fold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hall_i%27_th%27_Wood" title="Hall i' th' Wood">Hall i' th' Wood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horwich_Works" title="Horwich Works">Horwich Works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Bolton_Town_Hall" title="Little Bolton Town Hall">Little Bolton Town Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearsley_Mill" title="Kearsley Mill">Kearsley Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lostock_Hall_Gatehouse" title="Lostock Hall Gatehouse">Lostock Hall Gatehouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithills_Hall" title="Smithills Hall">Smithills Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swan_Lane_Mills" title="Swan Lane Mills">Swan Lane Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ye_Olde_Man_%26_Scythe" title="Ye Olde Man & Scythe">Ye Olde Man & Scythe</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="11" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bolton_Town_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bolton_Town_Hall.jpg/150px-Bolton_Town_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bolton_Town_Hall.jpg/225px-Bolton_Town_Hall.jpg 1.5x, 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James'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Evangelist%27s_Church,_Farnworth" title="St John the Evangelist's Church, Farnworth">St John the Evangelist's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary_the_Virgin%27s_Church,_Deane" title="St Mary the Virgin's Church, Deane">St Mary the Virgin's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s_Church,_Halliwell" title="St Margaret's Church, Halliwell">St Margaret's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Matthew%27s_Church,_Little_Lever" title="St Matthew's Church, Little Lever">St Matthew's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Maxentius%27_Church,_Bradshaw" title="St Maxentius' Church, Bradshaw">St Maxentius'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Church,_Bolton" title="St Patrick's Church, Bolton">St Patrick's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Bolton" title="St Peter's Church, Bolton">St Peter's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Saviour%27s_Church,_Ringley" title="St Saviour's Church, Ringley">St Saviour's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Stephen_and_All_Martyrs%27_Church,_Lever_Bridge" title="St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge">St Stephen and All Martyrs'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Thomas%27_Church,_Halliwell" title="St Thomas' Church, Halliwell">St Thomas'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shri_Swaminarayan_Mandir,_Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bolton">Shri Swaminarayan Mandir</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_College" title="Bolton College">Bolton College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Muslim_Girls%27_School" title="Bolton Muslim Girls' School">Bolton Muslim Girls' School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_St_Catherine%27s_Academy" title="Bolton St Catherine's Academy">Bolton St Catherine's Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_School" title="Bolton School">Bolton School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Sixth_Form_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton Sixth Form College">Bolton Sixth Form College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_TIC" title="Bolton TIC">Bolton TIC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canon_Slade_School" title="Canon Slade School">Canon Slade School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darul_Uloom_Bolton" title="Darul Uloom Bolton">Darul Uloom Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Essa_Academy" title="Essa Academy">Essa Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harper_Green_School" title="Harper Green School">Harper Green School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearsley_Academy" title="Kearsley Academy">Kearsley Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ladybridge_High_School" title="Ladybridge High School">Ladybridge High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Lever_School" title="Little Lever School">Little Lever School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_St_Joseph_School" title="Mount St Joseph School">Mount St Joseph School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivington_and_Blackrod_High_School" title="Rivington and Blackrod High School">Rivington and Blackrod High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Church_of_England_High_School" title="St James's Church of England High School">St James's Church of England High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Joseph%27s_Roman_Catholic_High_School,_Horwich" title="St Joseph's Roman Catholic High School, Horwich">St Joseph's RC High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharples_School" title="Sharples School">Sharples School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smithills_School" title="Smithills School">Smithills School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornleigh_Salesian_College" title="Thornleigh Salesian College">Thornleigh Salesian College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turton_School" title="Turton School">Turton School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Collegiate_School" title="University Collegiate School">University Collegiate School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Bolton" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Bolton">University of Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westhoughton_High_School" title="Westhoughton High School">Westhoughton High School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transportation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_bus_station" title="Bolton bus station">Bolton bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolton_Interchange" title="Bolton Interchange">Bolton Interchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackrod_railway_station" title="Blackrod railway station">Blackrod railway station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daisy_Hill_railway_station" title="Daisy Hill railway station">Daisy Hill railway station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farnworth_railway_station" title="Farnworth railway station">Farnworth railway station</a></li> <li><a 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