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relates that by 1953 Bolton had "no village, no railway station, no shop, no post office, no public house, and no police station." Today it could be added "no school" as this was closed in June 1968, when East
Lothian County Council consolidated a number of small local schools. Bolton's school had
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December 2016 and has significantly increased the population of Bolton.
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states that "the most prominent objects which attract the antiquarian eye are the hills forts above Bolton of the earliest people. On Bolton Muir there had been an ancient camp in the field called "Chesters".
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