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Brynford

Brynford is a village and community in Flintshire, Wales.

Brynford
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The place

Brynford is a village and community in Flintshire, Wales. It is located to the south west of the town of Holywell and near the A55 road. Brynford had a population of 1,059 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Brynford

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Basingwerk Abbey

    Basingwerk Abbey is a Grade I listed ruined abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. The abbey, which was founded in the 12th century, belonged to the Order of Cistercians.

    3.4 km · ruin of an abbey near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Winefride's Well

    St Winefride's Well is a holy well and national shrine located in the town of Holywell in Flintshire, Wales. The patron saint of the well, St Winefride, was a 7th-century Christian martyr who according to legend was decapitated by a lustful prince and then miraculously restored to life.

    1.9 km · National shrine, chapel, well, and pilgrimage site in Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Winefride's Church, Holywell

    St Winefride's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Holywell, Flintshire. It was founded by the Society of Jesus and was until recently the first church in the United Kingdom to be administered by the Vocationist Fathers now since departed as the parish returns into diocesan hands.

    1.7 km · grade II listed church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Halkyn Common and Holywell Grasslands

    Halkyn Common and Holywell Grasslands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Flintshire, north Wales covering Halkyn Mountain and surrounding areas. It lies 4 km north-west of Mold on a plateau about 100–300 m above sea-level.

    3.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Michael's Church, Brynford

    St Michael's Church, also known as Brynford Parish Church, is a Grade II listed Church in Wales church in Brynford, Flintshire, northeast Wales, to the southwest of Holywell. The foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of St.

    200 m · grade II listed church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Greenfield Valley Heritage Park

    Greenfield Valley Heritage Park is a 70-acre country park in the United Kingdom. It is located in Greenfield, near the town of Holywell in North Wales.

    2.7 km · country park in Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield

    Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield, is in Basingwerk Avenue, Greenfield, Flintshire, Wales. It is an active Anglican church in the former parish of Holywell, the Estuary and Mountain Mission Area, the archdeaconry of St Asaph and the diocese of St Asaph.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Parc Linden, Lixwm

    Parc Linden, Lixwm is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales.

    2.6 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Brynford

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 27 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 124 km
Stations
Holywell Town railway station, 1.7 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brynford
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £9–11
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Brynford
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Brynford
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Brynford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brynford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextChester Belfast, via the ro-ro Stena Lines MS Norbay ferry terminal in Twelve Quays, Birkenhead.

From Wikivoyage: Wirral, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-01.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    252 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    286 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    315 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    322 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    345 km

If you know how people move in Brynford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Brynford

Brynford is 21 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.