The New International Encyclopædia/Hawarden

HAWARDEN, här′den. A market-town in Flintshire, Wales, eight miles southeast of Chester (Map: Wales, D 3). Population of parish, in 1891, 13,610; in 1901, 15,817. Near by stands Hawarden Castle, long the residence of William K. Gladstone. The castle, built in 1752, stands near the ruins of an older one granted by William the Conqueror to his nephew, Hugh of Avranches, called by the Welsh the Wolf. After many vicissitudes it became the property of Cromwell's Lord Chief Justice, Sergeant Glynne, from whom it descended to Mrs. Gladstone. Consult Morley and Friederichs, “In William Gladstone's Village,” in Strand Magazine, vol. xvi. (London, 1898).