Garden City, Flintshire

Garden City
Church building, Garden City
Garden City is located in Flintshire
Garden City
Garden City
Location within Flintshire
Population1,407 [1]
OS grid referenceSJ326691
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDEESIDE
Postcode districtCH5
Dialling code01244
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Flintshire
53°12′54″N 3°00′32″W / 53.215°N 3.009°W / 53.215; -3.009

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".[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Garden City - Settlement Service Audit" (PDF). Flintshire County Council. December 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Queensferry Hotel, Garden City". History Points. 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  3. ^ Keith Atkinson (1998–2006). "History of Shotton - Chapter 14. Shotton In The 20th Century". Anglefire.