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Hawarden Village
Views of Hawarden. Not a bad place to live as confirmed by its appearance on The Sunday Time’s annual Best Places to Live List in 2014.
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Overview
Views of Hawarden, Flintshire, childhood home of footballer Michael Owen (b.1979) and home to the adult William Gladstone (1809-98), Liberal prime minister of Britain four times over. Gladstone lived at Hawarden Castle, the family home of his wife Catherine Glynne, and bequeathed his extensive library to the village. Not a bad place to live, apparently, as it appeared on The Sunday Time’s annual Best Places to Live List in 2014.
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