Saltney

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Saltney
Statistics
Population:	{{{Population}}}
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for SJ375645
Administration
Principal area:	Flintshire
Constituent country:	Wales
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Police force:	North Wales Police
Ceremonial county:	Clwyd
Historic county:	Flintshire
Post office and telephone
Post town:	CHESTER
Postal district:	CH4
Dialling code:	+44-1244
Politics
UK Parliament:	Alyn and Deeside
European Parliament:	Wales

Saltney is a small town in Flintshire, Wales. It is immediately to the west of the border between Cheshire in England, and Flintshire, and forms part of the Chester urban area. Part of the area known locally as Saltney (more specifically, Higher Saltney) is in Chester.[1]

The name is derived from the former salt marshes on which it is built, lying on the River Dee. Once the terminus of Sir John Glynne's Canal, Saltney grew in the late nineteenth century and through the twentieth century to its present population of over 10,000 people.