Mostyn is a village and

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Flintshire , settlement_type = County , image_skyline = , image_alt = , image_caption = , image_flag = , image_shield = Arms of Flint ...

, Wales, and electoral ward lying on the estuary of the River Dee, located near the town of Holywell. It has a privately owned port that has in the past had a

colliery Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron fro ...

and ironworks and was involved in the export of commodities, and in present times services the offshore wind industry and ships the wings for the

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which are manufactured at Broughton.

History

Mostyn was mentioned in the

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of 1086.

Henry Bolingbroke Henry IV ( April 1367 – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. He asserted the claim of his grandfather King Edward III, a maternal grandson of Philip IV of France, to the Kingdom of Fran ...

(later Henry IV) landed here in 1399 before attacking

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Flint Castle Flint Castle ( cy, Castell y Fflint) in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales. The site was chosen for its strategic position in North East Wales. The castle was only on ...

. Coal was mined at

Mostyn Colliery Mostyn Colliery was a coal mine in Flintshire, North Wales, that was owned in the later part of its operating life by the influential Mostyn family. The colliery was located at Mostyn on the banks of the River Dee. Early history The Welsh ...

and iron production started in the mid nineteenth century. The combination of a colliery, iron works and the docks made this a profitable enterprise. Nineteen hundred people were employed at one time. The coal eventually became exhausted and the ironworks closed in 1965. Between 1848 and 1966 there was a

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in the village on the Chester to Holyhead line. Mostyn once served as a port from which ferries used to sail (until 2004) to

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on the Liverpool-Dublin route. Today, manufactured wings for the

aircraft leave Mostyn on the ship '' Ville de Bordeaux'', after travelling down the River Dee by barge from the Airbus wing factory at

Broughton, Flintshire Broughton ( cy, Brychdyn) is a large village in Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales–England border, located to the west of the city of Chester, England, in the community of Broughton and Bretton. Along with the nearby village of Bretton, ...

. See Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit for more details of the transportation. Mostyn's port area is home to the headquarters of Warwick International Group Limited, manufacturers of bleach activators for detergent applications.

Port of Mostyn

The Port of Mostyn is privately owned and is one of the oldest ports in the country, having in the past handled cargoes including steel, coal, timber, woodpulp, animal feedstuffs and fertilizers. Nowadays it specialises in the assembly and installation of wind turbines and has been involved in the construction of North Hoyle, (Constructed 2003–2004), Burbo Bank (2006–2007), Rhyl Flats, (2008–2009)

Gwynt y Môr Gwynt y Môr (Welsh: meaning ''sea wind'') is a 576- megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm located off the coast of Wales and is the fifth largest operating offshore windfarm in the world. The farm has 160 wind turbines of tip height above mean sea ...

(2012–2015) and part of the work involved in the Robin Rigg and Walney windfarms.

Mostyn Hall

Mostyn Hall is a

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large country house set in extensive gardens lies around half a mile to the north-west of the village. Surrounded by gardens and parkland and approached from the south driveway. The former gatehouse, Porth Mawr, is to the southwest and a complex of farm buildings to the west.

The village

Just down the A548 road from Mostyn at Llanerch-y-Mor is the now closed Mostyn Fun Ship. The ship started life as the ''

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'', a car ferry and cruise ship. After it was permanently dry-docked in Mostyn, it earned its later name from its new operation as an arcade and bar.

Governance

Mostyn is also an electoral ward, coterminous with the community. It elects one county councillor to

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. A by-election was held on 31 July 2014 after the disqualification of the longstanding

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councillor, Patrick Heesom, On the 5th May 2022, as part of the most recent

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, Mostyn elected Pamela Banks who was represented as an

, by a 26% majority as former councillor Patrick Heesom saw defeat.

Notable people

Emlyn Williams George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor. Early life Williams was born into a Welsh-speaking, working class family at 1 Jones Terrace, Pen-y-ffordd, Ffynnongroyw, Fl ...

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

and actor

References

External links

Photos of Mostyn and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
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