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Bootle
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a municipal and county borough in the Bootle parliamentary division of Lancashire, England; at the mouth of the Mersey, forming a northern suburb of Liverpool. Pop. (1901) 58,566; an increase by nearly nine times in forty years. The great docks on this, the east bank of the Mersey, extend into the borough, but are considered as a whole under Liverpool. Such features, moreover, as communications, watersupply, &c., may be considered as part of the greater systems of the same city. The chief buildings and institutions are a hand some town hall, a museum, free libraries, technical schools, and several public pleasure grounds. Bootle was incorporated in. 1868 and was created a county borough in 1888; the corporation consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen and 30 councillors. A proposal to include it within the city of Liverpool was rejected in parliament in July 1903. Area, 1576 acres.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bootle'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bootle.html. 1910.
