[1] Historically in Cumberland, the village is in the Lake District National Park, and is close to the Irish Sea coast.

[3] Bootle is listed in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig.

They made no attempt to infiltrate further north into land held by British Celts or those places already settled by the Norse from Ireland, Isle of Man or Scotland.

Instead they satisfied themselves, for the moment, with taking those lands on the southern coastal strip of West Cumberland that had been settled by the Angles of Northumbria and had belonged to Earl Tostig prior to the Norman conquest.

A charter for a market and a fair for the 'exaltation of the cross' was granted in 1347 by King Edward III to John de Huddleston, Lord of Millom.