Wales
Flintshire
Shotton

Shotton

Shotton is a town and community in , Wales, within the conurbation along the River Dee, joined with , near the border with England.
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  • Type: Town with 16,800 residents
  • Description: town and community in Flintshire, Wales
  • Also known as: “Shotton, Flintshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shotton railway station and Hawarden Bridge railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
serves the towns of , and Shotton in , . It is situated where the Borderlands Line crosses the North Wales Coast Line.

Railway station
Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station near Shotton, Flintshire, . It is situated on the Borderlands line 13 miles north of , on the north side of over the .

Pub
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a pub.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Deeside and Queensferry.

Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the name given to a predominantly industrial conurbation of towns and villages in and on the Wales–England border lying near the canalised stretch of the that flows from neighbouring into the Dee Estuary.

Village
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is a town and community in , Wales, lying on the near the border. The community includes the village of . It is between , Shotton and Saltney Ferry.

Village
, also known as Park, is a village in the community of , in the principal area of , north . It is near to Hawarden and Shotton, in a relatively urban area, though there remains significant amount of countryside— is only a short distance away.

Shotton

Latitude
53.21073° or 53° 12′ 39″ north
Longitude
-3.03716° or 3° 2′ 14″ west
Population
16,800
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Open location code
9C5R6X67+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 280574473
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
12261578
Wiki­data ID
Q2355142
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Satellite Map

Discover Shotton from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Shotton” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Shotton”
  • Basque: “Shotton”
  • Bengali: “শটন”
  • Bengali: “শোটন”
  • Breton: “Shotton”
  • Bulgarian: “Шотън”
  • Catalan: “Shotton”
  • Cebuano: “Shotton”
  • Chinese: “塔利埃辛小学”
  • Chinese: “塔利埃辛小學”
  • Chinese: “肖頓”
  • Chinese: “肖顿”
  • Cornish: “Shotton”
  • Dutch: “Shotton”
  • French: “Shotton”
  • German: “Shotton”
  • Gujarati: “શોટન”
  • Irish: “Shotton”
  • Italian: “Shotton”
  • Japanese: “ショットン”
  • Kannada: “ಶೊಟ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “쇼턴”
  • Lithuanian: “Šotonas”
  • Persian: “شاتون، فلینتشر”
  • Persian: “شاتون”
  • Polish: “Shotton”
  • Portuguese: “Shotton”
  • Russian: “Шоттон”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Shotton”
  • Spanish: “Shotton”
  • Swedish: “Shotton, Wales”
  • Swedish: “Shotton”
  • Tamil: “ஷோட்டோன்”
  • Telugu: “శోట్టన్”
  • Telugu: “షోట్టన్”
  • Urdu: “شوتٹن”
  • Welsh: “Shotton”

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