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The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton (/ ˈ b oʊ l t ən / ⓘ 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 ...
The new metropolitan district and its council formally came into being on 1 April 1974, at which point the old districts and their councils were abolished. [4] The metropolitan district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor, continuing Bolton's series of mayors dating back to ...
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council elections (40 P) Pages in category "Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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.
South Turton is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England.There is no settlement or administrative area of South Turton; instead the name is a modern coinage to describe the area transferred to Bolton in 1974 from the former Turton Urban District in Lancashire.
It gives its name to an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,929. [1] Halliwell lies about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north west of Bolton town centre and is bounded by Tonge Moor to the east and Heaton to the south west.
A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 , metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan districts within metropolitan counties .
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