Bolton Steam Museum

Bolton Steam Museum is a museum in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which houses a variety of preserved steam engines. Based in the cotton store of the former Atlas Mill in Mornington Road, it is owned and run by the Northern Mill Engine Society.

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Type: Museum
Description: industrial museum in England, United Kingdom
Also known as: “The Bolton Steam Museum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Queen’s Park and Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum.

Queen’s Park

Park

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Queen's Park is a roughly circular 22 acres Victorian park lying on sloping ground to the north-west of Bolton town centre, in Greater Manchester, England. Queen’s Park is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Bolton Steam Museum.

Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum

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 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum is situated 1 mile southeast of Bolton Steam Museum.

Mere Hall

Government office

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Mere Hall is a government office, which is situated 3,600 feet east of Bolton Steam Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Heaton and Halliwell.

Heaton

Suburb

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Heaton is mostly a residential district of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It lies about 2 miles north west of Bolton town centre. It is bounded by Deane to the south, Markland Hill to the west, and Smithills and Halliwell to the north.

Halliwell

Suburb

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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.

Deane

Suburb

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Deane is an area of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. It is about 2 miles south west of Bolton and 11 miles northwest of Manchester. Historically a part of Lancashire, the parish of Deane was one of eleven parishes within the hundred of Salford and covered roughly half of the present Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.

Bolton Steam Museum

Categories: independent museum, industry museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Bolton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.5848° or 53° 35′ 5″ north

Longitude

-2.45482° or 2° 27′ 17″ west

Open location code

9C5VHGMW+W3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 170261967

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q12053263

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