Garden City cy, Dinas Gardd is a village in the

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area of

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, Wales. The village began as a

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for workers at the nearby steel works in Shotton, in accordance with company policy to give their workers decent housing. The village was originally intended to be called "Sealand Garden Suburb" and was planned to be four times bigger, but construction was halted by the advent of the First World War. Wirral band OMD recorded the 1984 track " Garden City", a successor to 1981's "

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Villages in Flintshire {{Wales-geo-stub