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Shotton is a town in Flintshire lying within the Deeside conurbation along the River Dee, adjoining Connah's Quay, near the border with England. It is located 5 miles west of Chester and can be reached by road from the A548. The name probably derives from Anglo-Saxon ''Scēot-tūn'' = "farmstead on or near a steep slope". At the 2011 Census Shotton had a population of 6,663. ==History== Originally founded by Anglo-Saxons, the town grew from the eighteenth century around coal mining and farming on reclaimed marshland. Steel works later grew up, and Shotton also became a railway junction. The steel works was originally owned by John Summers & Sons, a Stalybridge ironworks company. It was later bought by the government under British Steel. It was privatised and acquired by Corus Group, which still maintains operations. The town lies under the Hawarden Bridge, completed in 1889 and originally a swing-opening bridge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shotton, Flintshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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