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Bolton (/ ˈboʊltən / ⓘ BOHL-tən, locally / ˈboʊtən / BOH-tən) [ 2 ] is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider borough, of which Bolton is the administrative ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton (/ ˈboʊltən / ⓘ BOHL-tən) is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest town, Bolton, but covering a larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Westhoughton, and part of the West Pennine Moors. It had a population of 298,903 in 2022, making it ...
14th century. Status. Civil parish (until 1866) Ecclesiastical parish. Bolton le Moors (also known as Bolton le Moors St Peter) was a large civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in hundred of Salford in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It was administered from St Peter's Church, Bolton in the township of Great Bolton.
The BL postcode area, also known as the Bolton postcode area, [2] is a group of ten postcode districts in North West England.These cover most of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton and the northern and central parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Bury in Greater Manchester, plus small parts of the boroughs of Chorley, Rossendale and Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire.
Lancashire. Lancashire (/ ˈlæŋkəʃər / LAN-kə-shər, /- ʃɪər / -sheer; abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The county has an area of 3,079 ...
The first contested elections were held in November 1842 and Conservatives gained control in 1844. [6] [10] In 1850 the Borough Corporation took over the Great Bolton and Little Bolton trusts established in 1792. [3] In 1889, as it had a population in excess of 50,000, Bolton was constituted a County Borough by the Local Government Act 1888.
Township (Until 1866), Civil parish (1866–95) Great Bolton was a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, England. [ 2] [ 3] Despite its name, Great Bolton had a smaller acreage than its northern neighbour Little Bolton from which it was separated by the River Croal. [ 4][ 5]
Lostock was a township in the ancient Parish of Bolton le Moors, in the hundred of Salford, in the historic county of Lancashire. [5] In 1837 Lostock joined with other townships (or civil parishes) in the area to form the Bolton Poor Law Union and took joint responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law in that area. [8]