Bolton - Geography

Geography

Further information: Geography of Greater Manchester

The early name Bolton le Moors described the position of the town amid the low hills on the edge of the West Pennine Moors south east of Rivington Pike (456 m). Bolton lies on relatively flat land on both sides of the clough or steep-banked valley through which the River Croal flows in a south easterly direction towards the River Irwell. The geological formation around Bolton consists of sandstones of the Carboniferous series and coal measures, in the northern part of Bolton the lower coal measures are mixed with underlying Millstone Grit.

Neighbouring towns, villages and places.
Horwich Egerton and Chapeltown Tottington
Aspull and Blackrod Little Lever and Radcliffe
Bolton
Westhoughton Atherton and Tyldesley Farnworth and Kearsley


Areas and suburbs of Bolton
  • Breightmet
  • Burnden
  • Deane
  • Doffcocker
  • Great Lever
  • Halliwell
  • Heaton
  • Lostock
  • Markland Hill

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