Farnworth

城市概覽

Bolton grew rapidly as a textile and metal-bashing town during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Spinning Mule was invented here: it spun yarn into cotton thread faster and more efficiently than earlier processes, to feed the great hungry looms, and in its heyday there were 50 million Mules in Lancashire alone. A few were still in use for specialist fine yarns until the 1980s, but the Lancashire cotton trade collapsed in the 1950s, unable to compete with cheap imports. Bolton and similar towns slumped. In 1974 Manchester and its surrounding towns including Bolton were separated from Lancashire and became Greater Manchester. Bolton is nowadays mainly a commuter town for the big city. With a population in 2024 of 194,000 Bolton may well be "the biggest town in Britain" but its bids to be recognised as a city itself continue to be rebuffed. The town's traditional dialect is more "Lanky" (Lancashire) than Mancunian. You're unlikely nowadays to hear "thee / tha / thi" for "you / your" unless ironically, but you might hear "owt" (anything), "nowt" (nothing), "summat" (something) and "reeght" (right). Thus, a trivial matter is dismissed as "summat 'n nowt." Residents of Westhoughton are dubbed Keawyeds, cow heads; there's a bovine legend about this but it's probably from their victory banquet after Waterloo in 1815, when they roasted an ox and paraded the skull as "Old Boney". Visit Bolton posts tourist information.

如何抵達

By road for town centre exit M60 / M61 onto A666. For the football stadium stay on M61 to jcn 6. Trains to Bolton run every 20 min from the airport via Manchester Oxford Road and Piccadilly, taking 35 min. The quickest trains continue north to Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and either Glasgow or Edinburgh. Slower trains stop at Horwich Parkway and Chorley on their way to Preston, and continue to Kirkham and Blackpool. Trains from Manchester Victoria run every 30 min via Salford. From Bolton they either head west via Wigan to Southport or east via Blackburn to Clitheroe. 1 Bolton Interchange is central, near Town Hall. It has a staffed ticket office and machines, toilets and waiting rooms. All platforms have step-free access. 2 Horwich Parkway is next to Bolton Wanderers football ground and Middlebrook retail park. There are platform halts at Lostock, Westhoughton, Hindley, Daisy Hill, Blackrod (for Horwich town) and Hall i' th' Wood. By bus: National Express runs twice a day from London Victoria, taking six hours. From Manchester, Bee Bus 8 runs from Shudehill Interchange every 15 min, taking an hour. Bus 36 / 37 runs from Piccadilly every 10 min, taking 80 min via Salford. Bus X22 runs hourly from Trafford Centre, taking 25 min. There are also frequent but slow buses from Bury, Rochdale, Blackburn, Preston, Chorley and Wigan. The bus station is north side of the railway station.

當地交通

Bolton is not on the Greater Manchester tram network, so use the bus for outlying places. Bus 525 runs to Hall i' th' Wood. Buses passing near Bolton Wanderers football ground are the 505, 575, 915, 918 and 996, or you can take the train to Horwich Parkway. A dozen taxi firms ply in town centre.

必看景點

1 Bolton Town Hall, opened in 1873, is a confident statement of municipal pride, in neoclassical style with a baroque clock tower. Leeds and Portsmouth city halls were built to the same pattern. The elegant Le Mans Crescent behind was added in the 1930s. Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive, Le Mans Crescent BL1 1SL (by Town Hall), ☏ +44 1204 332211. M-Sa 9AM-5PM, Su 10AM-4PM. Collection ranging from natural history and ancient Egypt to Bolton’s industrial heritage. There's an aquarium in the basement. Free. (updated Jun 2026) St Peter’s is the Victorian parish church, commanding the view down Churchgate. Samuel Crompton lies in the graveyard. Churchgate has several interesting buildings but is messed up by modern shop fronts. 2 Bolton Steam Museum, Mornington Rd BL1 4EU, ☏ +44 7789 874105. W & Su 11AM-3PM. Grand collection of static textile mill engines. Donation. (updated Jun 2026) 3 Hall i' th' Wood, Crompton Way BL1 8UH. Temporarily closed. 16th-century mansion, timber-framed with stone additions, used as multiple lets for 17th- and 18th-century cottage industry. One of those occupants was Samuel Compton, who designed his "Spinning Mule" here. This helped textile processes grow bigger and bigger, into "dark satanic mills", and the days of cottage industry were ended. The Hall fell into disrepair but was bought up by Lord Leverhulme the "Sunlight Soap" tycoon, who gifted it to the town. (updated Jun 2026) 4 Prestolee Aqueduct is a four-arched stone aqueduct built in 1793 to carry the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal over the River Irwell. The canal climbed from Manchester over Pendleton to Prestolee where it branched, to Bolton and to Bury. This section is still in water and you can walk along the towpath but it's no longer navigable.

5 Turton Tower, Chapeltown BL7 0HG, ☏ +44 1204 852203. Apr-Oct W-Su 11AM-4PM. Odd-looking building that started out as a 15th-century pele tower, then a stone mansion was added in late Tudor times. It was derelict by the 19th centur

體驗活動

Octagon Theatre is by the town hall and museum at Howell Croft South, box office +44 1204 520661. Parks and countryside: central in town are Queen's Park and Moss Bank Park. - Moses Gate Country Park, also known as Crompton Lodges, stretches northwest of Prestolee Aqueduct. - 1 Eatock Lodge in Westhoughton is a small wooded nature reserve on "The Hoskers", a reclaimed colliery site. Also nearby is Cunningham Clough, a bosky gully with lots of scrubs for the dog to fossick in. St Gregory's Social Club, 13 Church Street, Farnworth BL4 8AG, ☏ +44 7866 314848. M-Th 3-midnight, F-Su noon-midnight. The one Phoenix Nights was based on. It's variously a function suite for events like weddings and funerals, a TV sports venue for big matches, an event space and has visiting acts. (updated Jun 2026)

Football: 2 Bolton Wanderers were promoted in 2026 so they now play soccer the Championship, the second tier. Their home ground (capacity 28,800) is generally known as the Macron or Reebok. It's on Burnden Way BL6 6JW, next to Middlebrook retail park five miles west of town centre. Golf: clockwise from the north are Dunscar, Turton, Harwood, Breightmet, Great Lever & Farnworth, Deane, Westhoughton, Hart Common, Regent Park, Bolton, Douglas Valley and Bolton Old Links. Walk in the West Pennine Moors (OS Landranger Map 109 “Manchester”, scale 1:50,000). Their most prominent features Rivington Pike and Winter Hill TV mast are across the boundary with Chorley. Great views across the North West - on a clear day you can make out Blackpool Tower and the mountains of Wales. Ironman Triathlon is in June: a 1.2 mile lake swim in Pennington Flash, a 56 mile bike ride around Wigan and Bolton then a 13.1 mile half marathon through city centre. Bolton Food & Drink Festival is held over the August bank holiday weekend.

購物

Bolton Market on Ashburner St is covered, tr