Editing Blacon (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Chester Cathederal viewed from Blacon.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Chester Cathedral viewed from Blacon]]
Blacon is next to the [[England–Wales border|Welsh border]], on a hill one mile north-west of and overlooking Chester. The village is built on what was previously farmland and is surrounded by open countryside. Blacon has views across to the city centre of Chester and to the Welsh hills twenty miles to the west.
Other nearby places include [[Upton-by-Chester]] to the north, [[Saughall]] and [[Mollington, Cheshire|Mollington]] to the north-west, [[Newtown, Chester|Newtown]] to the north-east and the [[border town]] of [[Saltney]] to the south. Blacon also has a close proximity to [[the Wirral]], being 6.5 miles from the village of [[Overpool]].<ref>[https://maps.google.com/maps?key=abqiaaaai7fqv1onmpufpwr-xf2zibs7aq1psctt6lzqg5jqjqrr3ls1gxt4gdsxjnilhd4fhsncieb6cfgb_a&ie=utf8&om=0&z=13&ll=53.20048,-2.907944&spn=0.031774,0.076904 Map of Blacon]</ref>

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