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Sychdyn

Sychdyn, or Soughton, is a village in the community of Northop, in Flintshire, Wales.

Sychdyn
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The place

Sychdyn, or Soughton, is a village in the community of Northop, in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated on the A5119 road, and is just over 1000 yards (1 km) north of the county town of Mold.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sychdyn

10 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.

    1.1 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.

    2.3 km · Grade I listed church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    2.2 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mold Town Hall, Earl Road

    Mold Town Hall is a municipal structure in Earl Road in Mold, Wales. The town hall, which serves as the meeting place of Mold Town Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    2.5 km · Grade II listed building in Flintshire · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church hall, Mold

    St John the Evangelist's Church, was a Welsh church in King Street, Mold, Flintshire, North Wales. It is now redundant as a church; it has been divided and is used as a church hall.

    2.3 km · grade II listed church in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    1.4 km · Judicial building in Mold, 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.

    1.3 km · grade II* country house & hotel in Flintshire, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    2.2 km · church in Northop, Flintshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Rhual mansion

    Rhual is a Grade I listed building in Flintshire, Wales. This small mansion has medieval origins and is surrounded by a large landscaped park.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    1.2 km · building in Halkyn, United Kingdom · 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 Sychdyn

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 25 km · Manchester (MAN), 60 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 123 km
Stations
Rhydymwyn railway station, 3.3 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sychdyn
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–10
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Sychdyn
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–18
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Sychdyn
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sychdyn

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 Sychdyn. 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

    247 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    305 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km

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Around it

Next door to Sychdyn

Sychdyn is 24 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.