Notice Board Retailers In Bolton Greater Manchester

Bolton (, locally /ˈboʊtən/) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, historically and traditionally a allocation of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles before Flemish weavers granted in the Place in the 14th century, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. The urbanisation and progress of the town largely coincided behind the opening of textile fabricate during the Industrial Revolution. Bolton was a 19th-century boomtown and, at its top in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world. The British cotton industry declined gruffly after the First World War and, by the 1980s, cotton fabricate had more or less ceased in Bolton.

Close to the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is 10 miles (16 km) north-west of Manchester. It is amongst several neighbouring towns and villages that together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the administrative centre. The town of Bolton has a population of 139,403, whilst the wider metropolitan borough has a population of 262,400. Bolton originated as a small settlement in the moorland known as Bolton le Moors. In the English Civil War, the town was a Parliamentarian outpost in a staunchly Royalist region and, as a result, was stormed by 3,000 Royalist troops led by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in 1644. In what became known as the Bolton Massacre, 1,600 residents were killed and 700 were taken prisoner.

Bolton Wanderers football club play home games at the University of Bolton Stadium and the WBA World light-welterweight champion Amir Khan was born in the town. Cultural interests improve the Octagon Theatre and the Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, as without difficulty as one of the dated public libraries traditional after the Public Libraries Act 1850.