The majority of Breightmet’s amenities can be found around the bustling Bury Road – one of the main routes into Bolton town centre. Breightmet has long had a reputation for being ‘rough’, which many here feel is unwarranted. They are tired of the way their area is seen by some and believe it is high time that changed.

Breightmet /ˈbreɪtmət/ is a neighbourhood of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,584….

Unfortunately, Bolton struggles with a fairly high crime rate as compared to the rest of the UK. While most of the actual crime is concentrated around the town centre, there are a few hot spots in outlying areas too.

Overall Bolton ranks 330th out of 379 local authorities with a particular poor rating for safety and security, based largely on crime figures. The living conditions of residents in Bolton also rated poorly based on income and housing, as did the health of the borough’s population.

“Little Lever is a nice area, but doesn’t seem to be any more or any less popular than other areas of Bolton. The typical home is a three-bedroomed dormer bungalow, selling for around £50,000.”

Breightmet It’s pronounced ‘Brate-met’.

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A recent article in the BEN quoted many local people who find Horwich a good place to live, in spite of recent problems. Horwich has excellent schools, which are striving to attract additional funding to improve the facilities for the Horwich and Blackrod communities.

Word History: Why do many speakers of English pronounce bury like berry instead rhyming it with jury? Because scribes from the East Midlands pronounced the word with this vowel they tended to spell the word with a u, and this spelling became standard when spellings were fixed after the introduction of printing.

If you live in Bury, England, you’re likely to pronounce it “Burry” rather then “Berry” – I used to work there and had to get out of the habit of saying “Berry”.

From Bolton town centre, head east on the A579 out of the town centre. Continue onto the A58, Bury Road. After about 600m turn left onto Milnthorpe Road and then take the first right onto Breightmet Fold Lane.

This was to help with slum clearance happening in the centre of Bolton, for the building of the new Market Hall. Now rewind 607 years previous to a time we believe Hall’s history began. During the year 1337 Edward III transformed the town.

Roscoe Fold School now stands on the site and adjacent are new flats, this area was originally the Church Hall the very first school and here is its story. Breightmet Hall

Breightmet /ˈbreɪtmət/ is a neighbourhood of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 13,584. Historically a township of the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in the Salford hundred of Lancashire, it lies 2 miles…