Hawarden Castle
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.Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Hawarden Castle and Gladstone’s Library.
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 is situated 880 feet west of Hawarden Castle.
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. Gladstone’s Library is situated 2,900 feet northwest of Hawarden Castle.
Hawarden railway station
Railway station
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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. Hawarden railway station is situated 3,700 feet west of Hawarden Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hawarden and Mancot.
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.
Mancot
Village
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mancot is a village in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 1 mile from Queensferry, and Hawarden and 6 miles from Chester. According to the 2001 Census, Mancot had a population of 3,462.
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.
Hawarden Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: 18th-century house in Hawarden, Wales
- Categories: mansion, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.18177° or 53° 10′ 54″ northLongitude
-3.01611° or 3° 0′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C5R5XJM+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 301619946OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q370127
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Hawarden Castle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հեուարդեն Քասլ”
- Cebuano: “Hawarden Castle”
- Chinese: “哈登城堡 (18世紀)”
- Chinese: “哈登城堡 (18世纪)”
- Chinese: “哈登城堡”
- Danish: “Hawarden Castle (1700-tallet)”
- Danish: “Hawarden Castle”
- Dutch: “Hawarden Castle”
- German: “Hawarden Castle”
- Greek: “Κάστρο Χάουαρντεν”
- Hebrew: “טירת האוורדן”
- Irish: “Caisleán Hawarden”
- Italian: “castello di Hawarden”
- Italian: “Castello di Hawarden”
- Japanese: “ハワーデン城”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawarden Castle”
- Russian: “Харден (усадьба)”
- Swedish: “Hawarden Castle”
- Turkish: “Hawarden Kalesi”
- Welsh: “Castell Penarlâg”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hawarden Castle and Hawarden Park.
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