Saltney

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Saltney is a small town in Flintshire, Wales,the name is derived from the former salt marshes on which it is built, lying on the River Dee. The town lies next to the border with England and is often incorrectly referred to as a suburb of Chester. Once the terminus of Sir John Glynne's Canal, Saltney grew in the late nineteenth century and through the twentieth century to its present population of over 10,000 people.


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