Bolton

Worth seeing in and around Bolton

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of Greater Manchester

   University in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK

   1.1 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Bolton Museum

   Public museum and art gallery in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England

   700 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Holy Trinity Church, Bolton

   Grade II listed church in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

   1.1 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Octagon Theatre

   Theatre in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England

   700 m · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Turton Tower

   Grade I listed building in North Turton, Lancashire, England, UK

   5.7 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St Paul's Church, Peel

   Church in Little Hulton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

   5.8 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St John the Evangelist's Church, Farnworth

   Grade II listed church in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

   4.9 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge

   Church in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

   2.2 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   10 Firwood Fold

   Grade I listed house in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

   2.3 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St Maxentius' Church

    Church in Bradshaw, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK

    3.3 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Bolton

Airports

Manchester (MAN), 28 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 39 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 60 km

Stations

Lostock railway station, 4.2 km · Farnworth railway station, 4.7 km · Moses Gate railway station, 3.7 km · Kearsley railway station, 5.8 km · Hall i' th' Wood railway station, 2 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bolton

  63 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £7–9
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bolton

  110 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £13–17
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Bolton

  128 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bolton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bolton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Bolton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.