Ewloe
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 TheCrown and Liver public house, Ewloe | |
  Ewloe Location withinFlintshire | |
| Population | 5,420 (2011 CensusWard) |
| OS grid reference | SJ303663 |
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| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DEESIDE |
| Postcode district | CH5 |
| Dialling code | 01244 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
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Ewloe (/ˈjuːloʊ/;Welsh:Ewlo,[ˈɛʊlɔ]ⓘ) is a village andelectoral ward in thecommunity ofHawarden inFlintshire,Wales. It is situated close to the Flintshire/Cheshire sector of theWales-England border.Flintshire County Council is based at St Davids Park in the village. TheA55 expressway passes through Ewloe and its most notable landmark isEwloe Castle. The Ewloeelectoral ward had a population at the 2011 Census of 5,420.[1] The urban area of the village is contiguous withHawarden,Buckley andShotton. TheOffice for National Statistics deems Ewloe to form part of the Buckley built-up area, which covers much ofDeeside.[2]
Ewloe grew rapidly during the late 1990s and early 2000s and is now the home of the internet basedMoneysupermarket.com and construction companyRedrow.Flintshire County Council has one of its main offices at Ty Dewy Sant on St David's Park, a building which had previously been occupied byUnilever and before them by the formerAlyn and Deeside District Council.[3]
TheVillage Hotels chain of hotels hosts the 'St David's Hotel' just off theA55 road network in Ewloe. TheSt David's Park housing estate was built in the 1990s and is known as being a prestigious estate popular with young professionals and families respectively. Increasing numbers of new property and the resulted increase to population in Ewloe led to the opening of a newCo-op supermarket on the St David's Park road, with Ewloe now boasting two Co-op stores around 835 metres apart.[4]
A chain super pub was built in St Davids Park, which then opened in September 2010, but was damaged in an arson attack early morning on 6 February 2011.[5][6] It has since reopened.
Two primary schools exist within the Ewloe and Ewloe Green wards. These are Penarlag CP School and Ewloe Green Primary School.
Secondary students from Ewloe are mostly educated atHawarden High School in adjacent Hawarden.
At the lowest level of local government, Ewloe is anelectoral ward that elects community councillors to Hawarden Community Council. The other three community electoral divisions are Aston, Hawarden and Mancot.[7]
Flintshire County Council has been fully based at Tŷ Dewi Sant in St Davids Park in Ewloe[8] since March 2025, following the completion of the council's move fromCounty Hall inMold.[9]
Ewloe is also a county ward for elections to Flintshire County Council, electing two county councillors.[10]
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