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Population
  
742 (2011)

Civil parish
  
Bootle

Country
  
England

Local time
  
Monday 11:29 PM

District
  
Copeland

OS grid reference
  
SD106882

Region
  
North West

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Cumbria

UK parliament constituency
  
Copeland

Bootle, Cumbria

Weather
  
6°C, Wind NW at 18 km/h, 92% Humidity

Bootle (oo as in boot) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Copeland in Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 745. Historically in Cumberland, the village is in the Lake District National Park, and is close to the Irish Sea coast. Near to Bootle is the Eskmeals Firing Range, which was a large employer but in the mid to late 1990s reduced the workforce. Also within the parish is Hycemoor, a hamlet situated 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north-west of Bootle, where Bootle railway station is located.

Contents

Map of Bootle, UK

History

Bootle is listed in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. A charter for a market and a fair for the 'exaltation of the cross' was granted in 1347 by King Edward III to John de Huddleston, Lord of Millom.

Governance

An electoral ward of the same name exists. This ward stretches north along the coast as far as Muncaster with a total population of 1,300.

Transport

  • Bootle railway station, 1-mile (1.6 km) from Bootle

    • Education

  • Primary school (Captain Shaw's School)

    • Religious sites

  • St Michael's Church
  • Chapel (Independent) - Formerly a Congregational Church built 1780. It became part of the United Reformed Church when the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches united in 1972 but became independent in the 1990s. The building is now owned by Rural Ministries and is still in use as an evangelical church.
  • Seaton Priory There are some remains of the Benedictine nunnery to the north of the parish.

    • Surnames

    Most common surnames in Bootle at the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1881, by order of incidence:

  • 1. Parker
  • 2. Hodgson
  • 3. Tyson
  • 4. Singleton
  • 5. Harrison
  • 6. Southward
  • 7. Thompson
  • 8. Gaitskell
  • 9. Huddlestone
  • 9. Taylor

    • Notable residents

  • Trudy Harrison, Conservative Member of Parliament

    • References

    Bootle, Cumbria Wikipedia
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