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Saltney

Saltney is a town straddling the counties of Flintshire and Cheshire on the England–Wales border.

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The place

Saltney is a town straddling the counties of Flintshire and Cheshire on the England–Wales border. The local government community of Saltney lies entirely in Wales, while the English areas are unparished. The town forms part of Chester's built-up area and is around 5 miles from Deeside.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Saltney

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Chester Cathedral

    Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester. It is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed cathedral in Chester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Chester

    The University of Chester is a public university located in Chester, England. The university originated as the first purpose-built teacher training college in the UK. As a university, it now occupies seven campus sites in and around Chester, one in Warrington, and a University Centre in Birkenhead.

    2.9 km · university in Chester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chester Zoo

    Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family.

    5.9 km · zoological garden at Upton-by-Chester, in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Chester Castle

    Chester Castle is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. It is sited at the southwest extremity of the area bounded by the city walls.

    2.1 km · castle in Chester, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Castra Deva Victrix

    Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, was a legionary fortress and town in the Roman province of Britannia on the site of the modern city of Chester. The fortress was built by the Legio II Adiutrix in the 70s AD as the Roman army advanced north against the Brigantes, and rebuilt completely over the next few decades by the Legio XX Valeria Victrix.

    2.4 km · Roman fort · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Eaton Hall

    Eaton Hall is the country house of the Duke of Westminster. It is 1 mile south of the village of Eccleston in Cheshire, England.

    5.2 km · country house estate n Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Q619259

    Deva Stadium is an association football stadium which is the home of Chester F.C., the effective successor club to the liquidated Chester City. The stadium straddles the England–Wales border at Sealand, Flintshire.

    1.1 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sealand Road

    Sealand Road was the home stadium of Chester City Football Club from 1906 until 1990. Although officially known simply as The Stadium, it was more commonly referred to as Sealand Road.

    2.1 km · sports stadium in Chester, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Airfield

    The Airfield, also known by its sponsored name as the Hollingsworth Group International Airfield, is a football stadium in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales. It is home to Airbus UK Broughton F.C., who play in the Cymru Premier.

    4.1 km · football stadium in Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Grosvenor Museum

    Grosvenor Museum is a museum in Chester, Cheshire, in the United Kingdom. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    2.2 km · natural history museum in Chester, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Saltney

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 18 km · Manchester (MAN), 47 km · Birmingham (BHX), 113 km
Stations
Chester railway station, 3.4 km · Hawarden Airport, 3.7 km · Bache railway station, 3.8 km · Saltney Ferry railway station, 1.6 km · Blacon railway station, 3.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Saltney
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–10
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Saltney
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–16
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Saltney
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Saltney

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Saltney. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    252 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    303 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    339 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    362 km

If you know how people move in Saltney – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Saltney

Saltney is 25 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Chestercity in Cheshire, England3.5 km
  • Mollingtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England5.2 km
  • Dodlestonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK4.7 km
  • Littletonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK5.7 km
  • Cheshire West and Chesterunitary authority area with borough status in England4 km
  • Broughtonvillage in Flintshire, Wales4.3 km