Deeside — Deeside Map Poster

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Deeside Map Poster

Deeside is less a single town than a chain of communities along the lower River Dee in Flintshire, including Connah's Quay, Shotton and Queensferry. From above, the river itself is the defining line. It was straightened into a canalised channel in the eighteenth century and runs almost dead straight toward the widening estuary, with housing gathered along its banks and broad industrial plots spread across the flat ground nearby.

The land here was won from marsh and tidal sand, which is why the map feels so level and open. Long roads run parallel to the water, rail lines trace the edge of the estuary, and the large rectangular footprints of factories and depots sit beside terraced streets. The English border and the city of Chester lie only a few miles to the east.

Deeside has long been tied to heavy industry, from the steelworks at Shotton to aircraft wing manufacturing at nearby Broughton. A Deeside map poster captures that working landscape in black and white. River, bridges, rail and streets become clean lines, and the estuary opens out between Flintshire and the Wirral toward the Irish Sea.