Bootle

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Approximate Population: 77,640

Bootle is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. It is 4 miles (6.4 km) to the north of Liverpool city centre, and has a total resident population of 77,640. Historically part of Lancashire, Bootle’s economy has been centred around the docks and their associated industries for decades.

Bootle, along with Southport, is one of the two main administrative headquarters for the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. Among Bootle’s neighbouring districts are Kirkdale to the south, Walton to the east, with Seaforth and Litherland to the north. To the west contains the Port of Liverpool running along side the River Mersey.

The old civic centre of Bootle contains large Victorian buildings such as the town hall and municipal baths. East of this centre is a sizeable area of large office blocks, to the west is the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and large areas of docks lining the River Mersey. To the north is the New Strand Shopping Centre, which gained notoriety after the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.

Bootle was originally a small hamlet built near the ’sand hills’ or dunes of the river estuary. The settlement began to grow as a bathing resort for wealthy residents of Liverpool in the early 19th century. Some remaining large villas which housed well-to-do commuters to Liverpool are located in the area known locally as ‘Bootle Village’.

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