Egerton village is 3 miles north of Bolton, Lancashire. I have lived here for the past 14 years.It is thought likely that the name 'Egerton' derives from one of the great mill owners of the area - the Egerton family, who sprang from Sir Thomas Egerton, made Baron Grey de Wilton in 1784. The development of the village came in the 1830's when the Ashworth family set up their cotton mill there.
Egerton is rural Bolton at its best, lying on the edge of Lancasire's Hill Country with moorland and open coutryside.
A word about the County in which Egerton lies; Greater Manchester is a Metropolitan County which was invented in the early 1970s, when boundaries were redrawn.
Many of the other towns (to the north and west of Manchester), which were assimilated into the Greater County, used to be in Lancashire (Bolton, Bury and Wigan, for example) - and many local residents still regard themselves as Lancastrians. Boltonians, for example, fiercly insist that Bolton is in Lancashire!! Personally, I have only had to use the term 'Greater Manchester' once, when completing a legal document. All the Utilities and even the Post Office in Bolton, use 'Lancashire' as our postal address and 'Greater Manchester' is strongly resisted!
I will be continually revising this gallery so please come back and visit again. Thank you for looking!
