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BOOTLE

Bootle (recorded in the Domesday Book as Boltelai) is a town in Merseyside, England. It shares a line of docks with Liverpool. It's industry includes tanning, ship-repairing and a tin plant. The town was first settled in th 7th century by people attracted by the supply of soft spring water. At the beginning of the 19th century it was a fashionable resort with villas and mansions, but these were later demolished when the docks were built on Bootle's Mersey waterfront. Much of the town was destroyed during the Second World War.
Bootle is a village in Cumbria, England.
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