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 i Stor-Manchester” and “Bolton, Lancashire”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

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

Museum
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Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum is a public…

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…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Halliwell and Breightmet.

Suburb
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is predominantly a residential area of Bolton, , England.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of Bolton, , England.

Town
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Bolton is a large town in … 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)
UN/LOCODE
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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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bolton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “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: “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: “Boltonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolton”
  • 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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