Penyffordd
Penyffordd, or Pen-y-ffordd, is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales, situated to the south east of Buckley and to the west of Chester.
Penyffordd, or Pen-y-ffordd, is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales, situated to the south east of Buckley and to the west of Chester. The name is derived from the Welsh Pen Y Ffordd – roughly translated as 'the highest or furthest point of the road'. The resident population of Penyffordd, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 3,715, increasing to 3,874 at the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Penyffordd
4 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.
- 01Plas Teg
Plas Teg is a Grade I listed Jacobean house in Wales. It is near the village of Pontblyddyn in Flintshire, between Wrexham and Mold.
2.5 km · Grade I listed country house in Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 02Fferm Farmhouse
Fferm Farmhouse is a small Elizabethan manor house, located to the east of Pontblyddyn in the county of Flintshire, Wales. It is listed as a grade I historic building, as 'an exceptionally fine example of a small manorial house', particularly because it retains much of its original sub-medieval detail and layout.
2.7 km · house in Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 03St Cyngar's Church, Hope
St Cynfarch and St Cyngar's Church, or simply St Cyngar's Church, or Hope Parish Church, is a Grade I listed parish church located in Hope, Flintshire, Wales. The Church in Wales church is dedicated to the Celtic saints Cynfarch and Cyngar.
3.4 km · church in Hope, Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia - 04St Matthew's Church
St Matthew's Church, is in the town of Buckley, Flintshire, Wales. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Borderlands Mission Area, the archdeaconry of Wrexham and the diocese of St Asaph.
3.5 km · church in Buckley, north Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to Penyffordd
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 25 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Birmingham (BHX), 116 km
- Stations
- Hope railway station, 3.5 km · Penyffordd railway station, 900 m · Buckley railway station, 1.8 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Penyffordd65 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £8–10
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Penyffordd107 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £12–16
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Penyffordd129 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Penyffordd
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 Penyffordd. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).
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Next door to Penyffordd
Penyffordd is 27 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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