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Bolton today is a modern suburb with lots of attractions for all the family. It has some of the best museums in Manchester, packed with artefacts and items of industrial heritage, and the surrounding countryside is simply breath-taking. Anyone interested in Manchester's industrial legacy should make for the Barrow Bridge Village in Bolton to experience how things used to be in these parts when heavy industry was still going strong. The famous 63 steps in Barrow Bridge would have been used on a daily basis by the hundreds of local mill workers who used to live here. One of the pleasant surprises is that the steps will lead you right up to the West Pennine Moors. The workers must surely have often looked longingly to those open green spaces and contrasted them sharply with their daily reality at the mill.

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Bolton is one of Greater Manchester's most lovely areas, full of interest relating to its industrial heritage but with pleasant open spaces and walkways too. On a day out in Bolton you can enjoy a picnic in Jumbles Country Park. There's also the inevitable Steam Museum with its beautiful machines, and Queen's Park playground for the kids. Book in to a Manchester hotel to explore this delightful area at your leisure.

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Bolton is close to Manchester, which attracts visitors all year round for its museums, galleries, trams and industrial heritage sites such as the Manchester Ship Canal. The city also has a famously buzzing nightlife and plenty of attractions for the kids too, so you can have a great time here whatever your age. Bolton, in Greater Manchester, was a mill town during the Industrial Revolution, when Manchester was busily transforming the industrial and economic landscapes of the region. Earlier still, Flemish weavers had settled here and introduced their cotton and wool-weaving traditions to the area, so it's probably them we have to thank for setting Manchester on its dizzy course of innovation and success! Stay at a Manchester hotel and come along to Bolton to see some brilliant attractions.