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Northop

Northop is a village, community and electoral ward situated in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 12 miles west of the city of Chester, midway between Mold and Flint, and situated just off junction 33 of the A55 North Wales Expressway.

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The place

Northop is a village, community and electoral ward situated in Flintshire, Wales, approximately 12 miles west of the city of Chester, midway between Mold and Flint, and situated just off junction 33 of the A55 North Wales Expressway. At the 2001 Census, the population of Northop was 2,983, increasing to 3,049 at the 2011 census. The community includes Sychdyn.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northop

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
    Theatr Clwyd

    Theatr Clwyd is a regional arts centre and producing theatre 1 mile from Mold, Flintshire, in North East Wales. It opened as Theatr Clwyd in 1976, but was known between 1998 and 2015 as Clwyd Theatr Cymru, before reverting to its original name.

    2.8 km · arts centre, theatre and cinema in Mold, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Mary's Church, Mold

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Mold, Flintshire, Wales, and a Grade I listed building. It belongs to the Deanery of Mold, the Archdeaconry of Wrexham and the Diocese of St Asaph of the Church in Wales.

    4 km · Grade I listed church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Top y Fron Hall

    Top-y-Fron Hall is a country house in the community of Connah's Quay, Wales. In 1977 it became a Grade II* listed building.

    3.3 km · country house in the community of Connah's Quay, Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mold Law Courts

    Mold Law Courts is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Raikes Lane, Mold, Flintshire, Wales.

    3 km · Judicial building in Mold, Wales · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gwysaney

    Gwysaney Hall is Jacobean house built in 1603 in the community of Halkyn, near Mold, in Flintshire, Wales. In 1952, the Welsh government service Cadw designated the property a Grade II* listed building as a "substantial and well-preserved" example of Jacobean architecture.

    2.4 km · building in Halkyn, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church Of St Eurgain And St Peter, Northrop

    The Church of St Eurgain and St Peter is a parish church located in Northop, Flintshire, Wales. It is a Grade I listed building.

    500 m · church in Northop, Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Soughton Hall

    Soughton Hall is a Grade II* listed country house hotel in Sychdyn, Flintshire, Wales. William John Bankes inherited Soughton Hall in 1815.

    700 m · grade II* country house & hotel in Flintshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Maes y Grug

    Maes y Grug is a Site of Special Scientific Interest at Alltami in the preserved county of Clwyd, north Wales. The site was a former colliery and consists of a large pond surrounded by deciduous woodland along with smaller ponds, marshland and grassland surrounded by farmland used for grazing.

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

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Getting to Northop

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 24 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 122 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Northop
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £8–10
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Northop
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–18
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Northop
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Northop

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 Northop. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    306 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    330 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    353 km

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Around it

Next door to Northop

Northop is 22 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.