Whether you naturally reach for a pain au chocolate or a fresh loaf of bread at a bakery, you might wonder where the best ones in and around Bolton are located.

The town and its surrounding areas have plenty of bakeries with lots of options for when you fancy indulging and to help you choose where to go for your next bakery trip, we asked Bolton News readers for their favourite spots.

Lots of bakeries were recommended by our readers with some receiving several votes and the top five are all located in Bolton – let’s take a look.

Locals recommend 5 of the best bakeries in and around Bolton

Armstrongs Bakers

Location: 185 Morris Green Lane, Bolton, BL3 3JU

A bakery called Armstrongs Bakers in Bolton was voted as the best bakery in and around Bolton by our readers.

It received more than 70 votes and locals were enthusiastic about the bakery’s menu items including the pies, cakes, pasties and bread.

One customer said: “Armstrongs Morris Green Lane. The best without a doubt”.

Alongside a heart emoji, another said: “Armstrong baker’s without a shadow of doubt!! Everything is home made in the bakery. Been going for over 50 years.. doesn’t get enough recognition”.

A third noticed the bakery’s popularity in the comments of our Facebook post, saying: “Armstrongs on morris green and looking at the comments on here half of Bolton agree xx”.

The bakery’s Facebook page was appreciative of the support from locals and thanked them on our post as well as on their own page.

Adding a comment to our post, the bakery said: “Wow!!!! THANKYOU to everyone that has recommended our little Bakery!! It means the World to our small family business & makes all the early mornings & long days of hard work making all of our Bread, Pies, Pasties & Cakes by hand with love.....53 years trading this year....heres to the next 53!”

Armstrongs Bakery proved to be popular among our readers alongside some other bakeries that were also voted for by several of them.

Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe

Location: 31 Churchgate, Bolton, BL1 1HU

The second most popular bakery recommended by our readers on Facebook is Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe in Bolton.

One customer said: “Ye old… no contest”.

Another said: “Ye olde pastie shop for ya pasties”.

A third commented: “Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe!!”

Hunters the Bakers and Wilsons Pie Shop both received the same amount of votes from our readers.

Hunters the Bakers

Location: 23-25 Church Road, Bolton, BL1 6HE

One visitor said: “Hunters Bakery on Church Rd hands down , no one better , you will not be disappointed”.

Another said: “Hunters the bakers.”

Wilsons Pie Shop

Location: 434 Bolton Road, Kearsley, Bolton, BL4 8NJ

Another popular bakery is Wilsons Pie Shop in Kearsley with one visitor favouring “Wilsons meat and onion” adding that there’s “no contest”.

A customer said: “Wilson’s pie shop Kearsley, beautiful.”

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Carrs Pasties Shop

Carrs Pasties Shop has several locations in Bolton and the bakery has proved popular with some of our readers.

One customer commented: “Obvs carrs”.

Another said: “Carr's pasties Reebok and on westhoughton market”.

While the above bakeries took the top five spots for best bakeries in and around Bolton according to our readers, plenty of others were recognised.

McManus in Farnworth, Paul’s Pasties and Mandys were also mentioned on several occasions.