Deeside
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 32,000 residents
- Description: predominantly industrial conurbation of towns and villages in Flintshire
- Postal code: CH5
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shotton railway station and Gladstone’s Library.
Shotton railway station
Railway station
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Shotton railway station serves the towns of Connah's Quay, Queensferry and Shotton in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated where the Borderlands Line crosses the North Wales Coast Line.
Gladstone’s Library
Library
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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.
Ewloe Castle
Castle
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Ewloe Castle is a native Welsh castle built by the Kingdom of Gwynedd near the village of Ewloe in Flintshire, Wales. The castle, which was one of the last fortifications to be built by the native Princes of Wales, was abandoned at the beginning of the invasion of Wales by Edward I in 1277.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hawarden and Shotton.
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.
Shotton
Town
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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.
Connah’s Quay
Town
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Connah's Quay, known locally as "The Quay" and formerly known as Wepre, is a town and community in Flintshire, on the River Dee and next to the border with England.
Deeside
- Categories: post town and conurbation
- Location: Shotton, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Deeside” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Deeside”
- Breton: “Glannau Dyfrdwy”
- Bulgarian: “Десиде”
- Cebuano: “Deeside”
- Chinese: “迪賽德”
- Chinese: “迪赛德”
- French: “Deeside”
- German: “Deeside”
- Italian: “Deeside”
- Japanese: “ディーサイド”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deeside”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Deeside”
- Norwegian: “Deeside”
- Polish: “Deeside”
- Spanish: “Deeside”
- Swedish: “Deeside”
- Welsh: “Glannau Dyfrdwy”
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