Sharples
Sharples is a suburb of Bolton, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, England.- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK
- Also known as: “Sharples, Bolton” and “Sharples, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thornleigh Salesian College and Smithills Hall.
Thornleigh Salesian College
School
Thornleigh Salesian College is a Roman Catholic secondary school in the Astley Bridge area of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England.
Smithills Hall
Smithills Hall is a Grade I listed manor house, and a scheduled monument in Smithills, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the slopes of the West Pennine Moors above Bolton at a height of 500 feet, 3 miles north west of the town centre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Astley Bridge and Halliwell.
Astley Bridge
Suburb
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Astley Bridge is predominantly a residential district of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is 2.5 miles north of Bolton town centre, 11.7 miles south of Blackburn, and 14.3 miles northwest of Manchester.
Halliwell
Suburb
Photo: Plucas58, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halliwell is predominantly a residential area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. 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.
Horrocks Fold
Hamlet
Horrocks Fold is a hamlet in Bolton, Lancashire, England. It is 4 miles northwest of Bolton town centre and 2.5 miles southeast of Belmont. Horrocks Fold lies on the southern slopes of the West Pennine Moors.
Sharples
- Category: locality
- Location: Bolton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.60249° or 53° 36′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.4409° or 2° 26′ 27″ westElevation
410 feet (125 metres)Open location code
9C5VJH25+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2035071070OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
“Sharples” goes by many names.
- Swedish: “Sharples”
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