Boothstown is a suburban village in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. Boothstown forms part of the Boothstown and Ellenbrook ward, which had a population at the 2011 Census of 9,599. The village is within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, west of the City of Salford, bordered to the north by the East Lancashire Road A580 and to the south by the Bridgewater Canal. Historically, it was a hamlet partly in Worsley township in the parish of Eccles, and partly in Tyldesley in the parish of Leigh.

Boothstown lies northwest of Salford, northwest of Manchester and southeast of Wigan. Astley is to the west, to the north is Walkden and to the east is Worsley where there is a transport interchange between the M60, M62 and M602 motorways.

Once known for its mining community, Boothstown is now a mainly residential area.

History

Evidence of the Romans in this area is that in 1947, workmen digging in Boothstown at discovered a hoard of over 550 bronze Roman coins dating between 259 AD and 278 AD. A second hoard of coins dated 289 - 296 A.D. was found at Boothsbank in 1989.

Manor

In 1323 the estate or manor of Booths was held by the de Worsley family and remained with that family, held of the king by a rent of 2s, until the reign of Elizabeth I. In the 17th century the manor was held by Charnock and then by Sherington. Booths Old Hall was built about 1343 and New Booths Hall was built in the early-17th century. Lord Francis Egerton bought the estate from Robert Haldane Bradshaw in 1836 and Booths and became part of the Manor of Worsley. In 1931 Boothstown Mines Rescue Station was built along with housing for the rescue team members and other staff, it is a Grade II Listed building.

A Mr Smith built a small cotton mill in Boothstown Delph by the Stirrup Brook in 1812.

Modern history

The M60 motorway was constructed to the east of Boothstown in the 1970s (originally as the M62). The Royal Horticultural Society opened a national garden at Bridgewater in 2021.

Governance

From the 11th century, Boothstown was part of the township of Worsley in the ancient ecclesiastical parish Eccles in the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancashire. Darren Ward and Bob Clarke.

Geography

The A572 crosses Boothstown west to east connecting it to Worsley and Wigan. the A580 East Lancashire Road is now the boundary between Tyldesley and Boothstown and crosses west to east at the northern edge of the village. The Bridgewater Canal crosses east to west in the south of the village.

There is agricultural and open land in the south of the Boothstown area that forms part of the Green Belt. To the south of the Bridgewater Canal the Geological Formation consists mainly of the pebble beds of the new red sandstone, north of Boothstown are coal measures.

Arthur Thomas Doodson, mathematician and oceanographer whose expertise in tidal prediction played a significant role in deciding the date for the Normandy landings.

References

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Bibliography

Leon Navis is a resident of Boothstown

  • Ellenbrook and Boothstown Brass Band
  • A site dedicated to sites and information about Boothstown
  • Boothstown Scouts and Guides Website
  • local on line newspaper containing local news, events, services, and local advertisements.
  • An updated version of the original Boothstown website