Aston Park, also known as Aston, is a village in the community of
Hawarden
Hawarden (; ) is a village and community (Wales), community in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home to Hawarden Castle (medieval), Hawarden Castle. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, ...
, in the principal area of
Flintshire
Flintshire () is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, the Dee Estuary to the north-east, the English county of Cheshire to the east, Wrexham County Borough to the south, and Denbighshire to the west. ...
, north
Wales
Wales ( ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the England–Wales border, east, the Bristol Channel to the south, and the Celtic ...
. It is near to Hawarden and
Shotton, alongside the
A494 road
The A494 is a trunk road in Wales and England. The route, which is officially known as the Dolgellau to South of Birkenhead Trunk Road, runs between the terminus of the M56 motorway between Mollington, Cheshire, Mollington and Capenhurst and t ...
, and it is often incorrectly referred to as Higher Shotton. It is situated in a fairly urban area but there is still much countryside -
Wepre Country Park is only a short distance away. In 2021 it had a population of 2850.
In the village there are some shops, a hairdresser, an
Indian takeaway, a bowling green, a park, a primary school and a hospital,
Deeside Community Hospital. Aston Park Rangers is the local football team.
References
External links
Aston Bowling Club(Archived website from 2007)
Aston Park Rangers
Villages in Flintshire
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