- This article is about the metropolitan borough of Bolton. For the actual settlement, see Bolton.
| Metropolitan Borough of Bolton | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Metropolitan borough |
| Region: | North West England |
| Admin. County: | Greater Manchester |
| Area: Total: |
Ranked 217th 139.80 km² |
| Admin. HQ: | Bolton |
| ONS code: | 00BL |
| Demographics | |
| Population: Total (2006 est.): Density: |
Ranked 32nd 262,400 1877 / km² |
| Ethnicity: | 89.0% White 9.1% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.bolton.gov.uk/ |
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| Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| Executive: | Labour (council NOC) |
| MPs: | David Crausby (L) Brian Iddon (L) Ruth Kelly (L) |
The Metropolitan borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest town Bolton, but covers a far larger area including six smaller towns and a number of villages around the West Pennine Moors.
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Creation
The metropolitan borough was formed on April 1, 1974, by the merger of the county borough of Bolton and the following districts from the administrative county of Lancashire:
- the municipal borough of Farnworth
- the urban district of Horwich
- the urban district of Westhoughton
- the urban district of Blackrod
- the urban district of Kearsley
- the urban district of Little Lever
- the southern part of the urban district of Turton, specifically the villages of Bradshaw, Bromley Cross, Dunscar, Egerton and Harwood. This area is now known as South Turton.
Parishes
Horwich, Westhoughton and Blackrod are now constituted as civil parishes. The parishes of Horwich and Westhoughton have the status of town councils. The rest of the metropolitan borough, Bolton, Farnworth, Kearsley, Little Lever, and South Turton, have remained unparished areas since 1974.
Demographics
The following table outlines the total population of the whole Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, which includes the unparished areas of Bolton (the former county borough), Farnworth, Kearsley, Little Lever and South Turton, plus the civil parishes of Blackrod, Horwich and Westhoughton.
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| Population | 260,229 | 262,880 | 261,037 |
According to the 2001 UK Census,[2] of the 261,037 people living in Bolton Metropolitan Borough, the following ethnicities have been recorded:
Mayors of Bolton
This list is only for the Mayors of Bolton since the creation of the Metropolitan Borough.[3][4][5]
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Neighbouring districts
| North-West: Borough of Chorley |
North: Borough of Blackburn with Darwen |
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| Metropolitan Borough of Bolton | East: Metropolitan Borough of Bury |
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| South-West: Metropolitan Borough of Wigan |
South-East: City of Salford |
References
- ^ a b Vision on Britain - Bolton District: Total Population. URL accessed 12 May 2007.
- ^ a b Neighbourhood Statistics - Bolton (Local Authority). URL accessed 12 May 2007.
- ^ Mayors of Bolton - Past and Present. URL accessed 29 June 2007.
- ^ Introducing the Mayor of Bolton. URL accessed 29 June 2007.
- ^ Famous Boltonians. URL accessed 12 May 2007.
- ^ Bolton News - History as Lib-Dem takes over as Mayor. URL accessed 17 May 2007.
 Districts of North West England |
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Allerdale • Barrow-in-Furness • Blackburn with Darwen • Blackpool • Bolton • Burnley • Bury • Carlisle • Chester • Chorley • Congleton • Copeland • Crewe and Nantwich • Eden • Ellesmere Port and Neston • Fylde • Halton • Hyndburn • Knowsley • Lancaster • Liverpool • Macclesfield • Manchester • Oldham • Pendle • Preston • Ribble Valley • Rochdale • Rossendale • St Helens • Salford • Sefton • South Lakeland • South Ribble • Stockport • Tameside • Trafford • Vale Royal • Warrington • West Lancashire • Wigan • Wirral • Wyre |
