Garden City, Flintshire Explained

Coordinates:53.215°N -3.009°W
Official Name:Garden City
Label Position:left
Population:1407
Population Ref:[1]
Unitary Wales:Flintshire
Lieutenancy Wales:Clwyd
Country:Wales
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Alyn and Deeside
Constituency Westminster:Alyn and Deeside
Post Town:DEESIDE
Postcode District:CH5
Postcode Area:CH
Dial Code:01244
Os Grid Reference:SJ326691
Static Image:Church building, Garden City, Flintshire (2).JPG
Static Image Caption:Church building, Garden City

Garden City (Welsh: Dinas Gardd) is a village in the Sealand area of Flintshire, Wales. The village began as a planned community 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.[2] [3]

Wirral band OMD recorded the 1984 track "Garden City", a successor to 1981's "Sealand".

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Garden City - Settlement Service Audit . Flintshire County Council . December 2015 . 1 May 2023.
  2. Web site: Queensferry Hotel, Garden City . 2012 . History Points . 9 April 2014 . 13 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413130756/http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=queensferry-hotel-garden-city . dead .
  3. Web site: History of Shotton - Chapter 14. Shotton In The 20th Century . Keith Atkinson . 1998–2006 . Anglefire .