Contact Us
Gladstone’s Library, Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire, CH5 3DF
Tel: +44 (0)1244 532350
Email: [email protected]
Our Reception is available from 8am to 5pm every day.
Reading Rooms & Collections Enquiries
To find out more about our archives and collections, contact [email protected].
Reading Rooms staff will be able to deal directly with your enquiry.
Media Enquiries
Please visit our Media Pack page
Contact Form
How To Find Us
Gladstone’s Library is in the heart of Hawarden village. It is easily accessible by road, just 15 minutes’ drive from the M56 and close to the A55, A548 and A494.
Satnavs should be set to travel to CH5 3DF. Please ensure that your Satnav is up to date before inputting our details – we don’t want you to end up in the wrong place!
Church Lane is easy to miss – it is a small turning directly after (or before, depending on direction of travel) the pelican crossing in the centre of the village.
If you find yourself going downhill past the war memorial, you’ve taken the wrong turning – take the first right, follow the road round, go right again and have another go!
We do have some car parking on site, but if full there is a good (free) public car park on Tinkersdale (A550), five minutes’ walk away.
Free parking is also available at Flintshire Record Office on Rectory Lane.
Unless it is more convenient to travel from or via Wrexham, we recommend that you come via Chester (only six miles from Hawarden) and travel onwards by bus or taxi.
Chester is only two hours from London, with trains leaving from Euston.
It is also 20 minutes’ train ride from Crewe.
Hawarden station can be reached from Wrexham or Liverpool.
From Wrexham, take the service to Bidston.
From Liverpool, take the Wirral line (green on the map) to Bidston, then change to the Transport for Wales service to Wrexham.
Do not disembark at Hawarden Bridge – it is an unstaffed station with almost no mobile phone signal.
When you disembark at Hawarden Station, walk out of the station, turn right, and follow the road until you see the Library (a few minutes’ walk).
Buses to Hawarden are the 4 and the X4. They depart from the bus stop opposite Chester train station, to the side of the Town Crier pub. Before 7pm departures are roughly every 30 minutes, after 7pm there is roughly one an hour until 11pm.
Further information and bus timetables can be found on the Arriva Bus Wales website.
Arriva tickets are the property and responsibility of Arriva Bus Wales. All enquiries should be directed to Arriva Bus.
Black cabs are available from outside the station.
If you are in Chester city centre, the number 11 bus leaves from Chester Bus Interchange.
