Visit Bolton - home to top-level lFA Premier League pro football team - Bolton Wanderers F.C.! Bolton is best known for their Premiership football club called Bolton Wanderers F.C. who play their home games at the Reebok Stadium, managed by Sam Allardyce. In 2005-06 Bolton finished eighth in the Premiership. Indoor facilities for sports training and major racket sports tournaments are provided courtesy of the newly-built Bolton Arena, which was used for some of the events in the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth games. Bolton or Bolton-le-Moors is located in the Manchester metropolitan area.

Since the late 18th cent., when spinning factories were built and a canal (1791) was constructed to Manchester, Bolton has been a cotton-textile center. Besides the textile plants (sheets, quilts, towels, bedcovers, and dress materials), factories pack poultry and produce textile and other machinery, chemicals, leather goods, furniture, carpets, and paper. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule (1779), was born nearby and is buried in Bolton. Richard Arkwright invented the “water frame” there c.1768.