Bolton

Bolton is a large town in in northwest England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre, with an industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton and railways.
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  • Type: Town with 139,000 residents
  • Description: town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England
  • Also known as: “Bolton, Lancashire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum and Octagon Theatre.

Museum
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Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum is a public museum, art gallery, library and aquarium in the town of Bolton, England, owned by .

Theater building
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The is a producing theatre located in Bolton, , England.

Town hall
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in Victoria Square, Bolton, , England, was built between 1866 and 1873 for the County Borough of Bolton to designs by William Hill of Leeds and George Woodhouse of Bolton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Halliwell and Breightmet.

Suburb
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is predominantly a residential area of Bolton, , England. It gives its name to an electoral ward of the wider . The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,929.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of Bolton, , England. The population at the 2011 census was 13,584. Historically a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, it lies 2 miles north-east of Bolton and 4 miles north-west of .

Town
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Bolton is a large town in in northwest England, 17 miles north of Manchester city centre, with an industrial heritage of canals, coal, cotton and railways. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Bolton.

Bolton

Latitude
53.5783° or 53° 34′ 42″ north
Longitude
-2.43° or 2° 25′ 48″ west
Population
139,000
Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BLT
Open location code
9C5VHHH9+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27329908
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2655237
Wiki­data ID
Q184579
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bolton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bolton”
  • Arabic: “Bolton”
  • Arabic: “بولتن”
  • Aragonese: “Bolton”
  • Armenian: “Բոլթոն”
  • Asturian: “Bolton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bolton”
  • Basque: “Bolton”
  • Bavarian: “Bolton”
  • Belarusian: “Болтан”
  • Bengali: “বোল্টন”
  • Bulgarian: “Болтън”
  • Catalan: “Bolton”
  • Cebuano: “Bolton”
  • Chinese: “保頓”
  • Chinese: “博尔顿”
  • Chinese: “博爾頓”
  • Czech: “Bolton”
  • Danish: “Bolton”
  • Dutch: “Bolton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولتن”
  • Esperanto: “Bolton”
  • Estonian: “Bolton”
  • Finnish: “Bolton”
  • French: “Bolton”
  • Galician: “Bolton”
  • Georgian: “ბოლტონი”
  • German: “Bolton”
  • Greek: “Μπόλτον”
  • Gujarati: “બોલ્ટન”
  • Hausa: “Bolton”
  • Hebrew: “בולטון”
  • Hungarian: “Bolton”
  • Icelandic: “Bolton”
  • Indonesian: “Bolton”
  • Interlingue: “Bolton (Greater Manchester)”
  • Interlingue: “Bolton”
  • Irish: “Bolton”
  • Italian: “Bolton”
  • Japanese: “ボルトン”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಲ್ಟನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بولٹن”
  • Korean: “볼턴”
  • Ladin: “Bolton”
  • Latin: “Boltonium”
  • Latvian: “Boltona”
  • Lithuanian: “Bolton”
  • Lithuanian: “Boltonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolton i Stor-Manchester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolton”
  • Norwegian: “Bolton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bolton”
  • Persian: “بولتون”
  • Polish: “Bolton”
  • Portuguese: “Bolton”
  • Romanian: “Bolton”
  • Russian: “Болтон”
  • Serbian: “Bolton”
  • Serbian: “Болтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolton”
  • Silesian: “Bolton”
  • Slovak: “Bolton”
  • Slovenian: “Bolton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بولتون”
  • Spanish: “Bolton”
  • Swahili: “Bolton”
  • Swedish: “Bolton, Greater Manchester”
  • Swedish: “Bolton”
  • Tamil: “போல்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Болтон”
  • Telugu: “బోల్టన్”
  • Thai: “โบลตัน”
  • Turkish: “Bolton”
  • Ukrainian: “Болтон”
  • Urdu: “بولٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Bolton”
  • Venetian: “Bolton”
  • Volapük: “Bolton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bolton”
  • Welsh: “Bolton”
  • Wu Chinese: “博尔顿”
  • Yue Chinese: “保頓”
  • “Bolton”

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