Shotton

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Shotton

Total population

16,775

Coordinates53.21°, -3.04°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Shotton is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, within the Deeside conurbation along the River Dee, joined with Connah's Quay, near the border with England. It is located 5 miles (8 km) west of Chester and can be reached by road from the A548. In the 2011 census, Shotton had a population of 6,663.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Rhodri Meilir

British actor

William Parry

Welsh courtier and spy (? -1585)

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Alfred Hazledine

Belgian painter (1874-1957)

Winifred

7th-century Welsh saint

Edward Ravenscroft

English dramatist 1654?-1707

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Nicolas Lloyd

British lexicographer

Daniel Owen

Welsh novelist (1836–1895)

John Blackwell

British writer

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Simon Spender

Welsh footballer (born 1985)

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Alfred Dickinson

Footballer (1914-1998)

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Danny Ferguson

Welsh footballer (1903-1971)

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Emma Jones

British journalist

E

Eric Morris

British footballer (1940-2011)

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George Wightwick

British architect (1802-1872)

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Roy Booth

astronomer

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Hannah Keryakoplis

Welsh footballer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Wales

• Ewloe
  1.7 mi away
• Hawarden
  1.8 mi away
• Dobshill
  3.2 mi away
• Northop
  4 mi away
• Higher Ferry
  4.2 mi away
• Higher Kinnerton
  4.8 mi away
• Pont-Y-Bodkin
  6.3 mi away
• Bryn Yorkin
  7.3 mi away
• Treuddyn
  7.5 mi away
• Abermorddu
  7.5 mi away
• Llanfynydd
  7.6 mi away
• Cefn-y-bedd
  7.7 mi away

Browse all places in Wales →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Shotton

The Summers of Shotton

Brian Redhead · 1987

Shotton/TUCSICC report on the future of Shotton Works

TUCSICC. · 1974

No comics on Sunday

Horace Salter · 1995

A technical and economic appraisal of steel making at Shotton Works to 1981

Trades Union Congress. Steel Industry Consultative Committee. · 1975

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Small White

Pieris rapae

Seen 2026-09-17

Sand-hill Screw-moss

Syntrichia ruraliformis

Seen 2026-09-17

Redstem Stork's-bill

Erodium cicutarium

Seen 2026-09-17

Red Admiral

Vanessa atalanta

Seen 2026-09-17

Hornet Mimic Hover Fly

Volucella zonaria

Seen 2026-09-17

pellitory-of-the-wall

Parietaria judaica

Seen 2026-09-17

common mugwort

Artemisia vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-17

Common Mallow

Malva sylvestris

Seen 2026-09-17

common dogwood

Cornus sanguinea

Seen 2026-09-17

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers