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Bolton

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Bol·ton  (bltn)
A borough of northwest England northwest of Manchester. It was a center of the woolen trade from the 14th to the 18th century. Population: 139,000.
Bolton [ˈbəʊltən]
n
1. (Placename) a town in NW England, in Bolton unitary authority, Greater Manchester: centre of the woollen trade since the 14th century; later important for cotton. Pop.: 139 020 (1991)
2. (Placename) a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop.: 261 035 (2001). Area: 140 sq. km (54 sq. miles)


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He opened the top one, Bolton Hall's "Three Acres and Liberty," and read to them of a man who walked six hundred and fifty miles a year in cultivating, by old-fashioned methods, twenty acres, from which he harvested three thousand bushels of poor potatoes; and of another man, a "new" farmer, who cultivated only five acres, walked two hundred miles, and produced three thousand bushels of potatoes, early and choice, which he sold at many times the price received by the first man.
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