Sandycroft
Sandycroft is a village in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 2 miles southeast of Queensferry and 7 miles west of Chester, on the B5129 road between Queensferry and Broughton. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 6,724.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawarden Airport and Gladstone’s Library.
Hawarden Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hawarden Airport, also known as Hawarden Aerodrome, is an airport near Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales, near the border with England and 3.5 NM west southwest of the city of Chester. Hawarden Airport is situated 1½ miles southeast of Sandycroft.
Gladstone’s Library
Library
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gladstone's Library, known until 2010 as St Deiniol's Library, is a residential library in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK. Gladstone's Library is Britain's only Prime Ministerial Library and serves as the national memorial to William Ewart Gladstone.
Hawarden Castle
Castle
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Hawarden Old Castle is a Grade I listed medieval castle near Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. The castle's origins are indeterminate and the oldest fortifications on this site may date back to the Iron Age, later being used as a Norman Motte-and-bailey castle which was reportedly destroyed and replaced in a short period during the 13th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mancot and Queensferry.
Mancot
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mancot is a village in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 1 mile from Queensferry, and Hawarden and 6 miles from Chester. According to the 2001 Census, Mancot had a population of 3,462.
Queensferry
Village
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Queensferry is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, lying on the River Dee near the border. The community includes the village of Sandycroft. It is between Connah's Quay, Shotton and Saltney Ferry.
Sealand
Village
Photo: Anthony Appleyard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sealand is a community in Flintshire and electoral ward, north-east Wales, on the edge of the Wirral peninsula. It is west of the city of Chester, England, and is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border.
Sandycroft
- Type: Village
- Description: small village in Flintshire, Wales
- Category: locality
- Location: Queensferry, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.19636° or 53° 11′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.00008° or 3° 0′ 0″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SNFOpen location code
9C5R5XWX+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 487080914OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638528Wikidata ID
Q13131201
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Welsh—“Sandycroft” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Sandycroft”
- Spanish: “Sandycroft”
- Welsh: “Sandycroft”
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