Greater Manchester has some really beautiful places to live.
24.02.2020 - 15:56 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
There are some oddly named places in the UK from Giggleswick to Dull, but Bolton has a relatively ordinary name for a town in the north.
It's actually a common name derived from the Old English bothl-tun, which means a settlement with a dwelling.
But it has undergone a number of adjustments since being first recorded all the way back in 1185.
It was recorded as Bothelton in 1212, Botelton in 1257, Boulton in 1288, and it wasn't until after 1307 that it was listed as Bolton, according to
Greater Manchester has some really beautiful places to live.
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