[5][6] Lord Francis Egerton bought the estate from Robert Haldane Bradshaw in 1836 and Booths and became part of the Manor of Worsley.

Cookes Meadow Pit at Ellenbrook dated from 1760-70 but deep mining came with the sinking of Mosley Common Colliery in the 1860s.

An early colliery tramway moved coal from the pits at Ellenbrook down to the canal at Boothstown Basin by gravity, using the slope of the land.

From the 11th century, Boothstown was part of the township of Worsley in the ancient ecclesiastical parish Eccles in the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancashire.

[5] Boothstown is represented in the UK parliament by Barbara Keeley, Labour MP for Worsley & Eccles South.

There is agricultural and open land in the south of the Boothstown area that forms part of the Green Belt.

[15] To the south of the Bridgewater Canal the Geological Formation consists mainly of the pebble beds of the new red sandstone, north of Boothstown are coal measures.

[5] Boothstown is served by bus routes to/from Salford, Manchester city centre, Walkden, Wigan and Leigh.