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Great Lever

Great Lever is a suburb of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

Great Lever
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The place

Great Lever is a suburb of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) south of Bolton town centre and the same distance north of Farnworth. The district is served by frequent buses running to Bolton town centre, Farnworth and the Royal Bolton Hospital. The population is 16,969.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Great Lever

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 26 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 61 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Lever
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Lever
    108 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Lever
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £14–19
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Lever

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 Great Lever. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.

From Wikivoyage: Bolton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    284 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    306 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    320 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    329 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    345 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Lever

Great Lever is 15 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.