Garden City, Flintshire

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Garden City
Church building, Garden City
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

Garden City 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 mean 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.[1][2]

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

References

  1. ^ "Queensferry Hotel, Garden City". History Points. 2012.
  2. ^ Keith Atkinson (1998–2006). "History of Shotton - Chapter 14. Shotton In The 20th Century". Anglefire.