Saltney
Saltney is a town straddling the counties of Flintshire and Cheshire on the England–Wales border.
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.
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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.
- 01Chester 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 - 02University 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 - 03Chester 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 - 04Chester 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 - 05Castra 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 - 06Eaton 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 - 07Q619259
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 - 08Sealand 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 - 09The 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 - 10Grosvenor 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
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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 → Saltney57 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £7–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Saltney104 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–16
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Saltney115 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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).
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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