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.
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:
Horwich, Westhoughton and B...
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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.
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:
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.
According to the 2005 estimates, of the 262,600 people living in Bolton Metropolitan Borough, the following ethnicities have been recorded:
The table below details the population change since 1801, including the percentage change since the last available census data. Although the...
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