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HAWARDEN (pronounced Harden, Welsh Penarltg) , a See also:market-See also:town of Flintshire, See also:North See also:Wales, 6 m. W. of See also:Chester, on a height commanding an extensive prospect, connected by a See also:branch with the See also:London & North-Western railway. Pop. (1901), 5372. It lies in a See also:coal See also:district, with See also:clay beds near. Coarse earthenware, draining tiles and See also:fire-clay bricks are the See also:chief manufactures. The Maudes take the See also:title of See also:viscount from the town. Hawarden See also:castle—built in 1752, added to and altered in the See also:Gothic See also:style in 1814—stands in a See also:fine wooded See also:park near the old castle of the same name, which See also:William the Conqueror gave to his See also:nephew, See also:Hugh See also:Lupus. It was taken in 1282 by Dafydd, See also:brother of See also:Llewelyn, See also:prince of Wales, destroyed by the Parliamentarians in the See also:Civil See also:War, and came into the See also:possession of Sergeant Glynne, See also:lord chief See also:justice of See also:England under See also:Cromwell. The last See also:baronet, See also:Sir See also:Stephen R. Glynne, dying in 1874, See also:Castell Penarlag passed to his brother-in-See also:law, William See also:Ewart See also:Gladstone. St Deiniol See also:church, See also:early See also:English, was restored in 18J7 and 1878.

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grammar school (1606), a Gladstone See also:golden-See also:wedding See also:fountain (1889), and St Deiniol's See also:Hostel (with See also:accommodation for students and an See also:Anglican clerical See also:warden); See also:west of the church, on Truman's See also:hill. is an old See also:British See also:camp.

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