Bolton-le-Sands

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Bolton-le-Sands
Bolton-le-Sands shown within Lancashire
Population	7,000
OS grid reference	SD485685
District	City of Lancaster
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARNFORTH
Postcode district	LA5
Dialling code	01524
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
European Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Morecambe and Lunesdale
List of places: UK • England • Lancashire

Coordinates: 54°06′32″N 2°47′20″W / 54.109, -2.789

Bolton-le-Sands is a large village in the Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. As of 2001, it had a population of around 7,000.

Referred to as Bodeltone in the Domesday book, the village was known as Bolton until the arrival of the railways, when the name was changed to Bolton-le-Sands to differentiate from similarly named towns on the same line, such as Bolton near Manchester.

The oldest church in the village, founded prior to 1094, is the Church of England Holy Trinity church, originally dedicated to St Michael. The oldest part of the current building is the tower, supposed to have been built around 1500. The nave and chancel date from the 19th century. The other churches are the Roman Catholic St. Mary of the Angels and the Christ Church United Reformed Church.

The Lancaster Canal, built in the 1790s, is a major feature of the village. Also passing through the village is the A6 and the West Coast Main Line, although the railway station closed in 1969.

The Village comprises of three pubs: The Royal Hotel, situated on the A6, The Packet Boat, and the Blue Anchor are both within the centre of the village, along the main street.

Bolton-le-Sands also have a football team, they play at Main Road, behind the aforementioned Packet Boat pub.

There is another Football team based in the village: Villa Royale, they play at Ryelands Park, just north of Lancaster.

The village has one school, Bolton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School, with around 300 pupils from the ages of 4 to 11 in a modern school building. The school is a successor to the old Boys' Free Grammar School, which dates from 1657, with the 19th century school building still used for community education. The school building was also home to the Bolton-le-Sands library until 1973, when the library was moved into a newly built site in the village centre.^[1]