North Wales Links

Holywell – Flintshire is a town that is located in the northeastern parts of Wales and is situated on the estuary known as Dee. Today, the population of this town is a mere fewer than ten thousand people and the main activity here is that of light industries which have sprung up and which are [...]

Thursday 19th August promises yet another eventful Denbigh and Flint Show and a great day out for families, exhibitors and traders. It’s the 148th annual show put on by the Denbighshire & Flintshire Agricultural Society which was originally formed at a meeting held at the Black Lion Hotel in Mold on 24 th July, 1839, [...]

Described by experts as “one of the rarest sights in the British countryside”, two pure white sparrows have been spotted in Mold in the county of Flintshire, North Wales. Peter Robinson, a Garden bird expert said: “These sparrows are particularly unusual because they’re totally white. We often get birds with white on them, so to [...]

The death of a Buckley man after an alleged assault has prompted his family to arrange a sponsored walk in his memory with the funds raised going to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridgeshire. 24 year old Peter Jones died after the alleged attack in Buckley, Flintshire, North Wales in the early hours of the 9th of May. Peter’s sister [...]

Flintshire Freeze are very pleased to confirm that the new coaching team of Marc Lovell and Phil Kennedy will be leading the Flintshire Freeze in to the new season in both the New EIHA Northern League and ENIHL N2, both have been a part of the Freeze set up for many years, together with new [...]

Caergwrle Castle, also known as Queen’s Hope in scholarly texts, is located in the town of Caergwrle, in Flintshire, Wales. It was the final castle to be built by Welsh rulers before the loss of Welsh independence in 1283. Construction of the castle began in 1277, after King Edward I gave the lordship of Hope [...]

There’s a new walk and history trail coming to Mold in Flintshire soon to celebrate one of the counties most often missed specimens of heritage and history, Bailey Hill motte and Bailey Hill castle in Mold. “A motte is a mound, often artificial, topped with a wooden or stone structure known as a keep. The [...]

The Met Office confirmed that the temperature in North Wales on May 23rd, 2010, matched that of Greece as themometers soared to  31.2 degrees fahrenheit in direct sunlight recorded in Wrexham, and 25 degrees in the shade in Hawarden, in the county of Flintshire. As crowds flocked to the beaches, other North Wales attractions benefitted [...]

Posted by Roy Norry: Halkyn mountain ranger and North Wales’s Arson Reduction Team are working with the North Wales Fire Service to stop people lighting deliberate fires on the mountain and in the Brynford areas of Flintshire. They say that crews have been called out to eight grass and gorse fires in the area over [...]

NEWSAR: Search and rescue abilities in doubt. Written by Roy Norry: Increasingly unreliable rescue Landrovers  are putting the efforts of the North East Wales Search and Rescue teams at risk due to lack of funding to replace them.  The Landrovers are the only way they can get their equipment into the remote places that their [...]