Queensferry, Flintshire

Historical Description

Queensferry, a place in Hawarden parish, Flintshire, on the river Dee, 6 miles SE of Flint, and 7 NW of Chester. It has a ferry, a station on the Chester and Holyhead section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post office under Flint; money order and telegraph office, Hawarden.

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Flintshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Queensferry are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• Western Mail
• Baner ac Amserau Cymru
• The Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser
• The North Wales Chronicle