Editing Bootle (section)

==Geography and administration==
Bootle Docks was created as a part of the [[Mersey Docks and Harbour Board|Mersey Docks]] and now promoted as [[Port of Liverpool]], with the Liverpool and [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]] Docks, being located on both bank sides of the [[River Mersey]]. Bootle Docks are situated at the northern end, that is closer to the [[Irish Sea]] estuary.

Bootle, along with [[Southport]], is one of the two main administrative headquarters for the [[Metropolitan Borough of Sefton]]. Among Bootle's neighbouring districts are [[Kirkdale, Liverpool|Kirkdale]] to the south, [[Walton, Merseyside|Walton]] to the east, with [[Seaforth, Merseyside|Seaforth]], [[Litherland]] and Netherton to the north. To the west it is bounded by the [[River Mersey]]. In the centre is a sizeable area of large office blocks, and the [[Leeds and Liverpool Canal]].

The old civic centre of Bootle contains large [[Victorian era|Victorian]] buildings such as the [[town hall]] and the municipal [[Public bathing|baths]]. To the north lies the [[New Strand Shopping Centre]], which gained notoriety after the abduction and murder of two-year-old [[James Patrick Bulger|James Bulger]] in 1993.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/07/james-bulgers-mother-reveals-biggest-regret-25-years-murder/ |title='If I'd turned right instead of left, I'd have saved his life': James Bulger's mother reveals her regret 25 years on |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=7 January 2018 }}</ref>