HAWARDEN (pronounced Harden, Welsh Penarlag), a town of Flintshire, N. Wales, 6 m. W. of Chester, connected by a branch with the L.M.S.R. Pop. (parish, 1921) 8,016. There is an early encampment on Truman's hill west of St. Deiniol's church, an early English building restored in 1857 and 1878. Hawarden castle—built in 1752, added to and altered in 1814—stands in a fine wooded park near the mediaeval castle of the same name. The latter suffered in Welsh raids and at the hands of the Parlia mentarians in the 17th century. The modern house passed to W. E. Gladstone. The Grammar school dates from 1606. St. Deiniol's Hostel, founded to house Mr. Gladstone's library, is much used by students. Pop. of rural district (1931) 26,5 7o.