Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

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This article is about the metropolitan borough of Bolton. For the actual settlement, see Bolton.

Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county:	Greater Manchester
Ceremonial County:	Greater Manchester
Historic County:	Lancashire
Region:	North West England
Area: - Total	Ranked 217th 139.80 km²
Admin. HQ:	Bolton
ONS code:	00BL
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 31st 265,400 1,898 / km²
Ethnicity:	89.0% White 9.1% S.Asian
Politics
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.bolton.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Labour (council NOC)
MPs:	David Crausby, Brian Iddon, Ruth Kelly

The Metropolitan borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of 264,800.^{[citation needed]}

The borough of Bolton covers Bolton, as well as nearby towns such as Kearsley, Farnworth, Horwich, Blackrod, Little Lever and Westhoughton together with a number of villages around the West Pennine Moors.

The current borough was formed on April 1, 1974, by the merger of the old county borough of Bolton, the municipal borough of Farnworth, the urban districts of Blackrod, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Lever, and Westhoughton, as well as the southern part of Turton urban district, specifically the villages of Bradshaw, Bromley Cross, Dunscar, Egerton and Harwood.

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Showing former status (prior to 1974)

Bolton (County Borough)
Farnworth (Municipal Borough)
Kearsley (Urban District)
Little Lever (Urban District)
Turton (Urban District) (part)

Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester

Districts of North West England	Image:Flag of England.svg
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
Counties with multiple districts: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside