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Chester Zoo
The UK's most-visited zoo housing over 35,000 animals across 128 acres with award-winning conservation programs.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Wales, United Kingdom · Europe
Broughton works well as a base: 5 minutes from Penyffordd, 39km from Evo Triangle.
Broughton is a town located in Wales, United Kingdom. With a population of 5,974, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Broughton (Welsh: Brychdyn ) is a village in Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales–England border, located to the west of the city of Chester, England, in the community of Broughton and Bretton. Along with the nearby village of Bretton, the total population was 5,974 at the 2011 Census, increasing to 6,535 at the 2021Read more
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Broughton is home to a large aircraft factory at Hawarden Airport. This was completed in 1939 for use by Vickers-Armstrongs, who built 5,786 Wellington bombers. De Havilland Aircraft took over the factory in 1948 and built 2,816 planes of several designs. Today, the plant is an Airbus factory that manufactures wings for the A320, A330 and A350 aircraft. Airbus wings produced there are flown out in Airbus Beluga and BelugaXL planes (while still in construction, larger A380 wings were transported by barge along the River Dee to the nearby Mostyn docks). The Broughton factory was featured in the 2011 BBC Television programme How to Build a Super Jumbo Wing.
Broughton is home to Cymru Premier football team Airbus UK Broughton, who joined the highest division of the Welsh football pyramid in 2004 and remained there for 13 years, before relegation at the end of the 2016/17 season. They subsequently won promotion back to the Welsh Premier League for the 2019/20 season. The club was formed in 1946 as Vickers-Armstrongs, and several name changes took place until it adopted the current name. The club were relegated to the Cymru North after the 2019/20 season, but promoted back into the Cymru Premier for the 2022/23 season.
Broughton United are a successful grassroots club within the village. They club were formed when Broughton Super Saints and Broughton Park amalgamated.
Broughton has a primary school with over 500 pupils and pre-school nursery, which was created when the infant and junior schools amalgamated. The school's most recent ESTYN report rated it "Excellent" in all areas. Its students wear a distinctive purple uniform. The school incorporates the local library and a playgroup and toddler group was based there until closure.
The village has a shopping park, Broughton Shopping Park, where branches of major stores can be found. The village centre has a small collection of shops, and the Offas Dyke Hotel on Broughton Hall Road.
Broughton Hall was a large manor house situated on the housing estate where Forest Drive is now. Between 1849 and 1964, Broughton was served by Broughton & Bretton railway station.
The Broughton War Memorial Institute is situated on Main Road, opposite the junction with Broughton Hall Road. The institute was built in lieu of a memorial stone to commemorate the sacrifice by residents of the village in military conflicts between 1914 and 1919, and hosts groups and events for the benefit of local people all year round.
Broughton is twinned with Auzeville-Tolosane (population 3,035), a commune in the suburbs of Toulouse, France.
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Broughton is located in Wales, United Kingdom, Europe. The coordinates are 53.1630 latitude, -2.9931 longitude.
Broughton has a population of approximately 5,974 people, making it a town in United Kingdom.
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The UK's most-visited zoo housing over 35,000 animals across 128 acres with award-winning conservation programs.
10 km · about 20 min drive
cafe
A legendary biker stop high on the Horseshoe Pass above Llangollen with panoramic views across the Welsh valleys.
21 km · about 25 min drive
mountain pass
Sweeping A542 mountain pass curling above Llangollen in a giant horseshoe, climbing to 417m past the Ponderosa Cafe with wide views over the Dee Valley. A classic North Wales driving and biking road.
22 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
A picturesque Cheshire circuit winding through parkland with dramatic elevation changes, a favourite of British club and national racing.
25 km · about 30 min drive
racetrack
Historic circuit inside Aintree Racecourse that hosted five British Grands Prix in the 1950s-60s, where Stirling Moss took his first home GP win. Club sprints still run on the old track.
35 km · about 40 min drive
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Exclusive guided tours of Bentley's Crewe factory where master craftspeople build the world's finest luxury cars.
37 km · about 45 min drive
famous road
Legendary 20-mile loop of the A5, A543 and B4501 across the empty Denbigh Moors, made famous as evo magazine's road-test circuit. Fast, open sightlines past Llyn Brenig make it a pilgrimage for keen drivers.
39 km · about 45 min drive
waterfall
Wales's tallest single-drop waterfall at 73 metres, cascading through a natural rock arch in a remote Berwyn Mountains valley.
43 km · about 50 min drive
April to October
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