Broughton
Broughton is a village in Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales–England border, located to the west of the city of Chester, England, in the community of Broughton and Bretton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 5,970 residents
- Description: village in Flintshire, Wales
- Also known as: “Broughton, Flintshire” and “Brychdyn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawarden Airport and Broughton Shopping Park.
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.
Broughton Shopping Park
Commercial area
Photo: Chestertouristcom, Public domain.
Broughton Shopping Park, also known as Broughton Centre, is a retail park in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales. It is the busiest retail park in North Wales, recording an average annual footfall of 10 million.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Higher Kinnerton and Hawarden.
Higher Kinnerton
Village
Photo: Michael Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Higher Kinnerton is a village and community within rural Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales-England border. Its sister village, Lower Kinnerton, is across the border in Cheshire, England. Higher Kinnerton is situated 1½ miles southwest of Broughton.
Hawarden
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hawarden is a village and community in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home to Hawarden Castle. Hawarden is situated 2 miles northwest of Broughton.
Sandycroft
Village
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. Sandycroft is situated 2 miles north of Broughton.
Broughton
- Category: locality
- Location: Broughton and Bretton, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.16502° or 53° 9′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.98752° or 2° 59′ 15″ westPopulation
5,970Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BZTOpen location code
9C5V5286+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 240684917OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Broughton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Broughton”
- Asturian: “Brychdyn”
- Basque: “Broughton”
- Basque: “Brychdyn”
- Bengali: “ব্রোটন”
- Breton: “Brychdyn”
- Bulgarian: “Бротън”
- Catalan: “Broughton”
- Catalan: “Brychdyn”
- Chinese: “布劳顿（弗林特郡）”
- Chinese: “布劳顿”
- Chinese: “布勞頓”
- Chinese: “布洛頓 (弗林特郡)”
- Dutch: “Broughton”
- Dutch: “Brychdyn”
- Finnish: “Broughton”
- Finnish: “Brychdyn”
- French: “Broughton (Pays de Galles)”
- French: “Broughton (Pays-de-Galles)”
- French: “Broughton”
- French: “Brychdyn”
- German: “Broughton (Wales)”
- German: “Broughton”
- German: “Brychdyn”
- Greek: “Μπρόουτον”
- Gujarati: “બ્રોટન”
- Irish: “Brychdyn”
- Italian: “Broughton”
- Italian: “Brychdyn”
- Japanese: “ブロートン”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಟನ್”
- Korean: “브루턴”
- Lithuanian: “Brotonas”
- Persian: “براوتون، فلینتشر”
- Polish: “Broughton”
- Polish: “Brychdyn”
- Portuguese: “Broughton”
- Portuguese: “Brychdyn”
- Russian: “Бротон”
- Spanish: “Broughton”
- Spanish: “Brychdyn”
- Swedish: “Broughton, Flintshire”
- Swedish: “Broughton”
- Swedish: “Brychdyn”
- Tamil: “பிரௌகஹடோன்”
- Telugu: “బ్రాటన్”
- Urdu: “برووگھٹن”
- Welsh: “Brychdyn”
- Welsh: “Brychtyn”
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Notable Places Nearby
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