Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

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

Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
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:	88.0% White 9.3% S.Asian 1.2% Mixed 1.0% Black 0.6% Chinese or Other
Politics
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.bolton.gov.uk/
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.

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.

According to the 2005 estimates,^[2] of the 262,600 people living in Bolton Metropolitan Borough, the following ethnicities have been recorded:

• 88.0% White
  • 85.9% White British
  • 1.2% Other White
  • 0.8% White Irish

• 9.3% South Asian
  • 5.9% Indian
  • 2.7% Pakistani
  • 0.5% Other South Asian
  • 0.2% Bangladeshi

• 1.2% Mixed Race
  • 0.5% White and Asian
  • 0.4% White and Black Caribbean
  • 0.2% White and Black African
  • 0.2% Other Mixed

• 1.0% Black
  • 0.6% Black African
  • 0.4% Black Caribbean
  • 0.1% Other Black

• 0.6% Other
  • 0.3% Chinese
  • 0.3% Other

Mayors of Bolton

This list is only for the Mayors of Bolton since the creation of the Metropolitan Borough.^[3][4][5]

Neighbouring districts

References

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