Deeside (Welsh: Glannau Dyfrdwy) is in Flintshire.
Understand
[edit]Deeside conurbation of towns and villages including Connah's Quay, Shotton, Queensferry, Aston, Garden City, Sealand, Broughton, Bretton, Hawarden, Ewloe, Mancot, Pentre, Saltney and Sandycroft.
Get in
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Map of Deeside
By road
[edit]On the A494 between Ellesmere Port and Mold.
By rail
[edit]- 1 Shotton railway station. is on the Borderlands Line Bidston, Wirral - Wrexham and the North Wales Coast Line Crewe - Holyhead
- 2 Hawarden Bridge railway station, Dee Marsh Junction, Hawarden Bridge. CH5 1PY.
- 3 Hawarden railway station, The Highway, Hawarden. CH5 1PY.
Get around
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- 1 Jubilee Bridge (Queensferry) (Blue Bridge), Queensferry.
- 2 Flintshire Bridge. 294 metre long cable-stayed bridge spanning the Dee Estuary
Do
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- Wales Coast Path. Start east of the town of Queensferry along the northern side of the Dee river on the Wales/England border.
- 1 Apex Karting, The Circuit, 26 Babbage Road, Engineer Park, Sandycroft CH5 2QD, ☏ +44 1244 531-652. Go karting circuit. £20+.
- 2 Deeside Leisure Centre, Chester Road West, Queensferry. CH5 1SA, ☏ +44 1352 704-200. Ice skating and a skate park. £5+.
Buy
[edit]- 1 Graham Weigh Cycles (formerly Deeside Cycles), 3-5 Chester Road East, Shotton CH5 1QA (On the main road, right next to Shotton railway station), ☏ +44 1244 831110. Monday-Friday 9AM-5:30PM, Saturday 9AM-5PM, Sunday closed. Suitable for spares, repairs and consumables for anyone planning on cycling from Shotton into North Wales, Wirral or Chester.
Eat
[edit]- 1 The Master Fryer, 16 Station Rd., Queensferry, ☏ +44 1244 830709.
Drink
[edit]Sleep
[edit]- 1 Holiday Inn (A55 Chester West), Westbound, A55, ☏ +44 1244 550011.
- 2 Village Hotel Club St David's Park, St Davids Park Interchange, Ewloe, Deeside, ☏ +44 1244 560640.
- 3 Gladstone's Library (St Deiniol's Library), Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire CH5 3DF, ☏ +44 1244 532350. Check-in: 2–9PM. William Gladstone's library, which contains not only 150,000+ books, particularly about religious subjects, but also 26 hotel rooms inside the library. Breakfast is included in the price, and other meals can be bought at the on-site restaurant, Food for Thought. If you want to visit the library during the day, e-mail [email protected] and ask for a free, temporary researcher pass. No dogs, no smoking, and no talking (quiet whispering permitted). £150.
Connect
[edit]Go next
[edit]| Routes through Deeside |
merges with  ←
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W  E
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→  Ellesmere Port → Liverpool/Manchester
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| Llandudno ← Flint ← | NW  E
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→ Chester ( Wrexham)
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