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Victoria Road, CHESTER, CH4 8SY

Although most of Saltney is across the Welsh border in Flintshire, it is to all intents and purposes a Chester suburb. Here a Stagecoach bus on route 16 threads its way around the housing estate before returning to Chester bus station. The poster on the rear is advertising an open day at Wrexham Glyndŵr University.

Seen from the junction with Boundary Lane. This is actually in Wales, albeit only just, but the locals are evidently supporting England in the World Cup which was due to start in Russia later the same day.

Taken at the junction with Kinnerton Close. As the name suggests, Boundary Lane runs along the English/Welsh border. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltney

Suburban housing seen from the junction with Sandy Lane.

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Chester (Chester District), Boundary Lane Saltney, in front of No 118. Adjacent to MSSid: CH_CHES03pb Image Inscription reads:- : CHESTER / 1998 : Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: CH_CHES01pb

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Chester (Chester District), Boundary Lane, Saltney, in front of No 118 laid in pavement. Apparently relocated from the vulnerable corner opposite. Adjacent to MSSid: CH_CHES01pb Image Inscription reads:- H B D M 1913 (Harry B. Dutton, Mayor of Chester 1912/3) To be surveyed Milestone Society National ID: CH_CHES03pb

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

At first glance, this might be dismissed as a wholly unremarkable slice of suburbia but the road has the distinction of running along the border between England and Wales, so the houses on the left are in Flintshire and those on the right are within the Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority area. There is nothing here to indicate this situation, although the name of the street gives a clue.

Padarn Close is a cul-de-sac leading off Sandy Lane. Although this part of Saltney lies just over the Welsh border in Flintshire, it is to all intents and purposes a suburb of Chester.

The border between England and Wales runs along this road so that the houses on the left are in Flintshire and those on the right are in the West Cheshire and Chester unitary authority area.