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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Bootle, or Bootle cum Linacre, mun. bor. and township with ry. sta., Walton on the Hill par., SW. Lancashire, on river Mersey, in N. vicinity of Liverpool, pop. 27,374 (showing an increase of 70 per cent, on the pop. of 1871); P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 5 newspapers. The bor. includes 370 ac. of the Liverpool docks, and contains the loading berths of the American steamers; it has also extensive timber-yards, jute factories, foundries, and corn-mills. B. received its charter in Dec. 1868.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "municipal borough and township with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Lancashire AncC |
| Place names: | BOOTLE | BOOTLE CUM LINACRE | BOOTLE OR BOOTLE CUM LINACRE |
| Place: | Bootle |
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