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Bollington
Town in Cheshire, England

Bollington

Bollington is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury.

In the Middle Ages, it was part of the Earl of Chester's manor of Macclesfield and the ancient parish of Prestbury. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 7,944 and the built up area had a population of 7,235.

How locals move

Getting around Bollington the local way

  • Go nextAfter taking in the splendid scenery and trekking to your heart's content, either camping out overnight or staying in Buxton, you might want to continue on to Sheffield, another post-industrial Northern city with more to offer than that description suggests.

From Wikivoyage: Macclesfield, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Benjamin Shaw (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.