Aston
Aston, also known as Aston Park, is a village in the community of Hawarden, in the principal area of Flintshire, north Wales. It is near to Hawarden and Shotton, in a relatively urban area, though there remains significant amount of countryside— Wepre Park is only a short distance away.- Type: Village with 2,850 residents
- Description: village in Hawarden, Flintshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Aston Park” and “Aston, Flintshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Deeside Community Hospital and Gladstone’s Library.
Deeside Community Hospital
Hospital building
Photo: Roger May, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Deeside Community Hospital is a community hospital in Aston Park, Flintshire, Wales. It is managed by the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
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 railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ansbaradigeidfran, Public domain.
Hawarden railway station serves the village of Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated on the Borderlands Line 10+1⁄2 miles north of Wrexham Central and all passenger services are operated by Transport for Wales. The station is unstaffed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deeside and Ewloe.
Deeside
Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Ewloe
Village
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ewloe is a village and electoral ward in the community of Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales. It close to the county's border with Cheshire, England. The Ewloe electoral ward had a population of 5,420 at the 2011 Census.
Shotton
Town
Photo: El Pollock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shotton is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, within the Deeside conurbation along the River Dee, joined with Connah's Quay, near the border with England.
Aston
- Category: locality
- Location: Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.19751° or 53° 11′ 51″ northLongitude
-3.03835° or 3° 2′ 18″ westPopulation
2,850Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)Open location code
9C5R5XX6+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 487080921OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12263878Wikidata ID
Q4811017
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Aston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Aston Park”
- Cebuano: “Aston Park”
- Chinese: “阿斯顿公园”
- Dutch: “Aston Park”
- French: “Aston Park”
- Irish: “Aston”
- Japanese: “アストン・パーク”
- Swedish: “Aston Park”
- Welsh: “Aston, Sir y Fflint”
- Welsh: “Aston”
- “Aston”
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Localities in the Area
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