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{{Short description|Village in Greater Manchester, England}}
{{distinguish|Boothtown}}
{{for|the electoral ward of the City of Salford|Boothstown and Ellenbrook (ward)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| coordinates              = {{coord|53.5024|-2.4252|display=inline,title}}
| official_name            = Boothstown
| population               = 9,599
| population_ref           = (2011.Ward. Boothstown and Ellenbrook)
| os_grid_reference        = SD7200
| metropolitan_borough     = [[City of Salford|Salford]]
| metropolitan_county      = [[Greater Manchester]]
| region                   = North West England
| country                  = England
| post_town                = MANCHESTER
| postcode_area            = M
| postcode_district        = M28
| dial_code                = 0161
| constituency_westminster = [[Worsley and Eccles South (UK Parliament constituency)|Worsley and Eccles South]]
| static_image_name        = Methodist Chapel, Boothstown - geograph.org.uk - 30980.jpg
| static_image_caption     = Methodist Chapel, Boothstown
| london_distance          = 
}}

'''Boothstown''' is a suburban village in the [[City of Salford]] in [[Greater Manchester]], England. Boothstown forms part of the [[Boothstown and Ellenbrook (ward)|Boothstown and Ellenbrook]] ward, which had a population at the 2011 Census of 9,599.<ref>{{cite web |title= Area: Boothstown and Ellenbrook (Salford Ward) | url = http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13689267&c=Boothstown+and+Ellenbrook&d=14&e=62&g=6345283&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1491357402208&enc=1 | website = neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk|accessdate=7 January 2016}}</ref> The village is within the boundaries of the [[Historic counties of England|historic county]] of [[Lancashire]], west of the City of Salford, bordered to the north by the East Lancashire Road [[A580 road|A580]] and to the south by the [[Bridgewater Canal]]. Historically, it was a hamlet partly in [[Worsley]] township in the parish of [[Eccles, Greater Manchester|Eccles]], and partly in [[Tyldesley]] in the parish of [[Leigh, Greater Manchester|Leigh]].<ref name="Township map">{{citation |title=Boothstown|url=   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Worsley/ParishMap.shtml |publisher=Genuki |accessdate=17 January 2010}}</ref>

Boothstown lies {{convert|5.2|mi|km|1}} northwest of [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]], {{convert|6.8|mi|km|1}} northwest of [[Manchester]] and {{convert|10|mi|km|1}} southeast of [[Wigan]]. [[Astley, Greater Manchester|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 motorway|M60]], [[M62 motorway|M62]] and [[M602 motorway]]s.

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 {{gbmapping|SD72160108}} discovered a [[hoard]] of over 550 bronze Roman coins dating between 259&nbsp;AD and 278&nbsp;AD.<ref name="Pastscape">{{PastScape|mname= |mnumber=44272 |mode=cs2 |accessdate=19 March 2008}}</ref> A second hoard of coins dated 289 - 296 A.D. was found at Boothsbank in 1989.<ref name="VisitSalford">{{citation|title=Boothstown|url=http://www.visitsalford.info/boothstown.htm|publisher=visitsalford|accessdate=14 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623015521/http://www.visitsalford.info/boothstown.htm|archive-date=23 June 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===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.<ref name="VisitSalford"/> The hearth-tax returns of 1666 show nearby Wardley Hall was the largest residence with 19 hearths, Worsley Hall and Booths had 17 each. There were 276 hearths in the township, Worsley proper had 191. The house, in the latter part of the 18th century, was owned by the Clowes family who owned [[Garrett Hall]] in neighbouring Tyldesley.<ref name=vch>{{citation |editor1-last=Farrer |editor1-first=William |editor2-last=Brownbill |editor2-first=J |title=Townships: Worsley|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41442 |work=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4|publisher=British History Online |pages=376–392 |year=1911 |accessdate=11 December 2009}}</ref><ref name=genBoothstown>{{citation |title=Boothstown|url=   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Boothstown/ |publisher=genuki.org.uk  |accessdate=2009-12-11}}</ref> [[Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere|Lord Francis Egerton]] bought the estate from [[Robert Haldane Bradshaw]] in 1836 and Booths and became part of the Manor of Worsley.<ref name="VisitSalford"/>

===Industrial Revolution===
[[File:Boothstown_Mines_Rescue.JPG|thumb|left|[[Boothstown Mines Rescue Station]]]]In 1795 the Bridgewater Canal was extended from Worsley, through Boothstown to Leigh. The growth of Boothstown was based on coal and cotton. Cookes Meadow Pit at Ellenbrook dated from 1760-70 but deep mining came with the sinking of [[Mosley Common Colliery]] in the 1860s. An early colliery tramway moved coal from the pits at Ellenbrook down to the canal at Boothstown Basin by gravity, using the slope of the land.<ref name="VisitSalford"/>

Boothstown's underground canal, the Chaddock Level, was used to transport coal during the 19th century. It connected the Bridgewater Canal at a small [[Canal basin|basin]] approximately 100m east of Moss House Lane to Chaddock Colliery, the Queen Anne Pit (1810 to 1820) and Henfold Pit in Tyldesley. The keystone on the entrance to the Chaddock Level is dated 1816. The pits on the Tyldesley side of Boothstown had closed by 1870.<ref name=Canal>{{citation|title=Boothstown:Chaddock Canal |url=http://freespace.virgin.net/tony.smith/canal.htm |publisher=Tony Smith |accessdate=11 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228195300/http://freespace.virgin.net/tony.smith/canal.htm |archivedate=28 December 2008 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="MR">{{citation|title=Boothstown Mines Rescue|url=http://www.colsal.org.uk/sites/lancashireminesrescue/Homepage.asp|publisher=colsal.org.uk|accessdate=14 December 2008}}</ref><ref name="EH">{{National Heritage List for England|num=1228029|desc=Boothstown Lancashire Mines Rescue Station|access-date=12 March 2017|mode=cs2}}</ref>

A Mr Smith built a small cotton mill in Boothstown Delph by the Stirrup Brook in 1812.<ref name="VisitSalford"/> In 1891 Edward Makin of Garden Mill had 260 looms weaving "regattas, stripes, ginghams etc." and William Yates' Boothstown Mill had 9,000 spindles and 242 looms producing fine quality cotton from 1875 until the mill closed in 1968.<ref name="GG">{{citation|title=Cotton Mills in Boothstown |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/Cotton_Mills_in_Manchester_and_Salford_1891#Boothstown._6_miles_N.N.W._from_Manchester_.28p129.29|publisher=gracesguide.co.uk |accessdate=14 December 2008}}</ref><ref name="StW">{{citation|title=Boothstown|url=http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/web/pages/common/imagedisplay.php?&irn=3006782&size=800x1031|publisher=spinningtheweb.org.uk|accessdate=14 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718135353/http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/web/pages/common/imagedisplay.php?&irn=3006782&size=800x1031|archive-date=18 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Modern history===
The [[M60 motorway (Great Britain)|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 [[RHS Garden Bridgewater|Bridgewater]] in 2021.

==Governance==
{{main|Boothstown and Ellenbrook (ward)}}
From the 11th century, Boothstown was part of the [[Township (England)|township]] of Worsley in the ancient ecclesiastical parish [[Eccles, Greater Manchester|Eccles]] in the [[Salford (hundred)|hundred of Salford]], and [[Historic counties of England|county]] of [[Lancashire]].<ref name=vch/>

Boothstown is represented in the UK parliament by [[Barbara Keeley]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP for [[Worsley & Eccles South]].

The Boothstown and Ellenbrook ward of [[Salford City Council]] is represented by three [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] councillors: Les Turner,<ref>{{cite web | title = Councillor Les Turner | url = https://sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=175 | website = sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk | publisher = [[Salford City Council]] | access-date = 22 May 2021}}</ref> Darren Ward<ref>{{cite web | title = Councillor Darren Ward | url = https://sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=314 | website = sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk | publisher = [[Salford City Council]] | access-date = 22 May 2021}}</ref> and Bob Clarke.<ref>{{cite web | title = Councillor Bob Clarke | url = https://sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=133 | website = sccdemocracy.salford.gov.uk | publisher = [[Salford City Council]] | access-date = 5 April 2017}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{further|Geography of Greater Manchester}}
{{Geographic Location
|title     = '''Neighbouring towns, villages, and places'''
|Northwest = [[Tyldesley]]
|North     = [[Ellenbrook, Greater Manchester|Ellenbrook]]
|Northeast = [[Walkden]]
|West      = [[Astley, Greater Manchester|Astley]]
|Centre    = Boothstown
|East      = [[Worsley]]
|Southwest = Glazebury
|South     = [[Chat Moss]]
|Southeast = [[Eccles, Greater Manchester|Eccles]]
}}
The A572 crosses Boothstown west to east connecting it to Worsley and Wigan. the [[A580 road|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]].<ref name="S E pdf">{{citation|title=Boothstown_ Ellenbrook|url=http://www.salford.gov.uk/d/boothstown-ellenbrook.pdf|publisher=salford.gov.uk|accessdate=11 December 2009}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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.<ref name=vch/>

==Transport==
Boothstown is served by bus routes to/from [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]], [[Manchester city centre]], [[Walkden]], [[Wigan]] and [[Leigh, Greater Manchester|Leigh]].

Services include:
29-Boothstown-Swinton-MediaCityUK, 
35-Manchester-Leigh-Bryn
126-Leigh-M60-The Trafford Centre, 
132-Wigan-M60-The Trafford Centre,
553-Astley Green-Walkden-Farnworth.

Services V1 and V2 stop near Boothstown, serving Newearth Rd and East Lancs Rd, A580

==Notable people==
{{further|List of people from Salford}}
[[Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy|Elizabeth Wolstenholme]], the [[suffragist]] ran a private boarding school in Boothstown in the early 1860s.{{sfnp|Crawford|2003|p=188|ps=}}

==References==
'''Notes'''
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'''Bibliography'''
{{refbegin}}
*{{citation |last =Crawford |first =Elizabeth |title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928 |publisher=Routledge|year=2003 |isbn=1-135-43402-6}}

Leon Navis is a resident of Boothstown

{{refend}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170915101758/http://ebbb.co.uk/ Ellenbrook and Boothstown Brass Band]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110130002931/http://www.tonysmith58.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm A site dedicated to sites and information about Boothstown]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071009021453/http://www.boothstownsag.org/ Boothstown Scouts and Guides Website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090622010605/http://www.boothstownbugle.co.uk/index.htm local on line newspaper containing local news, events, services, and local advertisements.]
*[https://www.boothstown-village.co.uk/ An updated version of the original Boothstown website]
[[Category:Areas of Greater Manchester]]
[[Category:Geography of Salford]]