Hawarden

Hawarden Castle

Hawarden, town, historic and present county of Flintshire (Sir Fflint), northeastern Wales. It is situated just southwest of the River Dee and 7 miles (11 km) west of the city of Chester, England.

Hawarden Castle (1752) was for 60 years the home of William Ewart Gladstone, the Victorian prime minister of the United Kingdom. St. Deiniol’s Library was founded by Gladstone in 1895, and there is also a Gladstone museum in the community. Hawarden functions both as a commuter suburb for Chester and as part of the Deeside industrial region. Pop. (2001) 13,539; (2011) 13,920.