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Dist:0.1km<br/>Linking Wales and England. The footbridge, which crosses the Chester to Wrexham railway line, provides access from the Lache district of Chester with the Welsh border town of Saltney.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.2km<br/>Boundary Lane, so-named as it marks the boundary between England and the Principality of Wales. Until "Beeching" nearby railway sidings served industry on the Welsh side of the border.
©Dennis Turner
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©Alex McGregor
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.5km<br/>Catholic primary school in High Street Saltney.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.5km<br/>A Flintshire County Council library
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.5km<br/>A neat row of terraced houses on the High Street in Saltney.
©Eirian Evans
Dist:0.5km<br/>This historic locomotive shed, redundant but now modernised, shows what can be achieved with some thought rather than a bulldozer. It is shown on the 1882 Ordnance Survey map within a complex of railway sidings and other buildings, but it seems to be the only survivor from those times. It stands alongside Boundary Lane, which is more or less the boundary between England (where the building is) and Wales where the camera is. Boundary Lane meets the A5104 just to the left of the camera.
©John S Turner
Dist:0.5km<br/>Modern apartment block in Boundary Lane.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.5km<br/>This nice old sign once resided very close to the border by the Anchor Hotel. Its removal by the council caused an outcry and it was eventually returned to an insignificant location in a layby some 100 metres from the border. It now has to fight for recognition with a street light (plus Christmas decorations), and advertising hoardings for a Saab dealership and a Shell petrol station. The odd angle of the shot is the only way to do some sort of justice to the sign without including all the other items.
©John S Turner
Dist:0.5km<br/>"African Rhino" is seen here outside the Lache Community Centre in Hawthorn Road. The design is inspired by colourful African designs and animals. Artist: Alison Pitt Sponsor: Lache Adventure Playground Association
©John S Turner
Dist:0.6km<br/>Sewage has to be pumped to the Sewage treatment plant in low lying areas.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.6km<br/>In between the roadside hedge and the angled hedge on the right is a triangular plot that was once the site of the Holy Epiphany church, parish of Lache cum Saltney. The church was consecrated on the 9th January 1855, and the plot is in Cheshire, with the national boundary with Wales running through the camera position. At that time the location of the church was some distance from the centre of population and so in 1893 the church of St. Mark was consecrated on the corner of St Mark's Road and Hough Green. Holy Epiphany is not recorded on the 1899 O.S. map so presumably it had been demolished by then. Today the plot is just a field grazed by sheep. For more information see: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Saltney/index.html
©John S Turner
Dist:0.6km<br/>Modern church building in High Street Saltney.
©Dennis Turner
Dist:0.6km<br/>Main road through Saltney from Hawarden to Chester
©Dennis Turner

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