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View across the Dee from Flint castle to Thurstaston Cliffs on the Wirral
©Galatas
View from Flint castle across the Dee estuary to Parkgate on the Wirral
©Galatas
Footbridge over the railway line near Flint Station, leading to the Kings Christian Centre, the River Dee Community Church housed in the former King's Head public house.
©Roger May
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©ian robert pearsall
Dist:0.2km<br/>The view from one of the picnic tables near the free car park.
©Michael C
Dist:0.2km<br/>Flint Castle on a cold, calm winter's day.
©ian robert pearsall
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view looking west northwest towards Fflint Castle with Halkyn mountain in the background. See http://www.castlewales.com/flint.html for more images and information on this relatively unknown castle.
©Phil Williams
Dist:0.2km<br/>A view of the south west corner of the castle and the track along the west side. The River Dee estuary can be seen in the distance.
©John S Turner
Dist:0.2km<br/>A small boat is aground on the marshland close to Flint castle on the River Dee estuary. Little Neston can be seen in the distance.
©John S Turner
Dist:0.3km<br/>King Edward I of England ordered Flint Castle to be built as the very first of what was to become his 'iron ring' of English castles in North Wales. Work began in 1277 and by 1280 Edward employed the Savoyard master castle designer James of Saint George to complete the project to the highest contemporary European standards of impregnability, power and might.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>The 1960's planners who thought that people would live happily piled on top of each other are probably all knighted, retired and dead by now but their legacy lives on in high levels of unemployment, drug abuse, anti-social behaviour, crime and relationship breakdown and the myriad other problems that stem from a poor environment. If you treat humans like rats then some will behave like rats. Flint is a by-word for all the above problems which is sad as we can be sure that its the minority who spoil it for the majority. Rant over.
©Jeremy Bolwell
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©Peter Aikman
Dist:0.3km<br/>The castle was slighted (rendered unusable militarily again) after a three month siege during the English Civil War in 1647. The hole in the wall gives a view onto a 1960's high-rise tower block in Flint town, called, I believe, Castle Heights.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking along the wall of Flint castle between the outer ward and the moat.
©John S Turner
Dist:0.3km<br/>A section of the ruins.
©Gerald England

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