Bootle, Sefton

Location Map

Bootle is a town in Sefton

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Bootle within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Bootle in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

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.

Bootle in the Domesday Book

A village in [West] Derby hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

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