Bolton is a village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, about 4 miles (6 km) north west of Appleby-in-Westmorland, and on the River Eden.

[2] The parish touches Brougham, Colby, Cliburn, Crackenthorpe, King's Meaburn, Kirkby Thore, Morland and Temple Sowerby.

[7] Crossrigg Hall is a Grade II* listed country house, designed by Anthony Salvin in 1864.

[8] Bewley Castle was a medieval residence of the bishops of Carlisle.

[9] There is a story told, that a castle servant named Marget Dawe once murdered a highwayman named Belted Will Scott, after he gained entrance to the castle dressed as a woman.