The Abandoned Lake

Places of Interest

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.

Ewloe Castle

Castle

Photo: Clintheacock66, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

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

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.

Mold

Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mold is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the historic county town and was the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council from 1996 to 2025, as it was of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996.

Buckley

Town

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Clwyd is a preserved county in the eastern part of North Wales. It consists of the unitary authorities Wrexham, Flintshire, Denbighshire, as well as Conwy.

The Abandoned Lake

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