Hawarden, Flintshire

(Penarlâg)

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Hawarden is a settlement in Sandycroft, Flintshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Hawarden within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Hawarden in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Hawarden (pronounced Harden), market town, par., and township, Flintshire, on affluent of river Dee, 8 miles SW. of Chester and 186 miles NW. of London - par., 17,302 ac., pop. 9387; township, 15,000 ac., pop. 7087; P.O., T.O. Coarse earthenware, tiles, and bricks are its mfrs. The nearest sta. is Queensferry, 1½ mile N. In the vicinity is Hawarden Castle, the seat of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.

Hawarden in the Domesday Book

A village in Ati's Cross hundred, in the county of Cheshire.

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