Bolton (disambiguation)

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Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester. It may also refer to:

• Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
• Bolton Wanderers F.C.
• Bolton, Cumbria, England
• Bolton, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Bolton, Northumberland
• Bolton, East Lothian

In the USA:

• Bolton, Connecticut
• Bolton, Massachusetts
• Bolton, Mississippi
• Bolton, New York
• Bolton, North Carolina
• Bolton, Vermont

In Canada:

• Bolton, Ontario

Other places with similar names include:

• Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire
• Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire
• Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire
• Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire
• Bolton-on-Dearne, South Yorkshire
• Bolton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire
• Boltonfellend, Cumbria
• Boltongate, Cumbria
• Castle Bolton, North Yorkshire

Several famous people have the name Bolton:

• Several notable people have the name John Bolton:
  • former US ambassador to the UN John R. Bolton
  • John Gatenby Bolton – British-Australian astronomer (1922–1993)
  • John Bolton - British comic book artist (1951-) and subject of Neil Gaiman's A Short Film About John Bolton (2003).
• Singer Michael Bolton
• Geoffrey Bolton - Western Australian academic historian.
• Occultist and far-right activist Kerry Bolton.
• Prominent chemist and research director at DuPont, Elmer Keiser Bolton (1886-1968)
• Barry Bolton - English myrmecologist
• Clint Bolton - Australian goalkeeper
• Cecil Bolton (1904-1993), American baseball player
• House Bolton - Fictional House in George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series

[edit] See also

• Boulton
• Josh Bolten (often misspelled as Josh Bolton)