Bolton
Bolton is a hamlet and the third smallest parish in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies approximately 2 miles south of Haddington and 20 miles east of Edinburgh, and is an entirely agricultural parish, 6 miles long by about 1.25 miles wide.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bolton, East Lothian”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bolton Parish Church and St Mary’s Collegiate Church.
Bolton Parish Church
Church
Photo: Tpacw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bolton Parish Church is a church in Bolton, East Lothian, Scotland. It is part of the Church of Scotland and serves the parish of Yester, Bolton and Saltoun.
St Mary’s Collegiate Church
Church
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of Scotland parish church in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. Building work on the church was started in 1380, and further building and rebuilding has taken place up to the present day. St Mary’s Collegiate Church is situated 2½ miles north of Bolton.
Lennoxlove House
Building
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lennoxlove House is a historic house set in woodlands half a mile south of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. The house comprises a 15th-century tower, originally known as Lethington Castle, and has been extended several times, principally in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samuelston and Gifford.
Samuelston
Hamlet
Samuelston is a small town just outside of Haddington, East Lothian. It has a population of 957. George Ker, laird of Samuelston, supervised building work at the church of Ladykirk for James IV. His daughter Nichola Ker married Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home. Samuelston is situated 1½ miles west of Bolton.
Gifford
Village
Photo: Lisa Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gifford is a village in the parish of Yester in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies approximately 4 miles south of Haddington and 25 miles east of Edinburgh. It groups around the Colstoun Water at the junction of the B6369 and B6355 surrounded by rural farmland. Gifford is situated 2 miles southeast of Bolton.
Haddington
Photo: Achromatic, CC BY 3.0.
Haddington is a market town in East Lothian, 15 miles east of Edinburgh in central Scotland. It's the administrative centre of East Lothian council area, with a population of 10,360 in 2020.
Bolton
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.92082° or 55° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.7906° or 2° 47′ 26″ westElevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9C7VW6C5+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 4034017551OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Bolton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bolton”
- Dutch: “Bolton”
- French: “Bolton (East Lothian)”
- French: “Bolton”
- Italian: “Bolton”
- Lithuanian: “Boltonas”
- Swedish: “Bolton, Skottland”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bolton”. Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.