Broughton and Bretton
Broughton and Bretton is a community in Flintshire, Wales. It contains the villages of Broughton and Bretton, and had a population of 5,974 as of the 2011 UK census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawarden Airport and Hawarden Castle.
Hawarden Airport
Aerodrome
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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 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.
Hawarden Castle
Castle
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Hawarden Castle is a house in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. It was the estate of the former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, having previously belonged to the family of his wife, Catherine Glynne.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deeside and Chester.
Deeside
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Deeside is the name given to a predominantly industrial conurbation of towns and villages in Flintshire and Cheshire on the Wales–England border lying near the canalised stretch of the River Dee that flows from neighbouring Chester into the Dee Estuary.
Chester
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Chester is a very pretty and historic English city on the river Dee, and the county town of the North-Western county of Cheshire. Although maybe not worth a whole holiday, it's well worth a day or overnight trip to see the Roman ruins and medieval city centre.
Hawarden
Village
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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 and Bretton.
Broughton and Bretton
- Type: Locality with 6,610 residents
- Description: community in Flintshire, Wales
- Category: community
- Location: Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Broughton and Bretton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Broughton and Bretton”
- Chinese: “Broughton and Bretton”
- French: “Broughton and Bretton”
- Irish: “Brychdyn a Bretton”
- Japanese: “ブロートン・アンド・ブレットン”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Broughton and Bretton”
- Swedish: “Broughton and Bretton”
- Welsh: “Brychdyn a Bretton”
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