Penyffordd, or Pen-y-ffordd, is a village,

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and

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Flintshire Flintshire () is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, the Dee Estuary to the north-east, the English county of Cheshire to the east, Wrexham County Borough to the south, and Denbighshire to the west. ...

, Wales, situated to the south east of Buckley and to the west of

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. The

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is derived from the Welsh – roughly translated as . The resident population of Penyffordd, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 3,715, increasing to 3,874 at the 2011 census. Penyffordd lies to the east of A550, south of its junction with the A55 (North Wales Expressway). The

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consists of the neighbouring villages of Penyffordd and Penymynydd, which are a ribbon development along the line of the former major road. There is also a zebra crossing which has been instated. A

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named Pen-y-ffordd is also in Flintshire. It is located between Holywell and

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, near

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History

Penyffordd was home to a Royal Observer Corps (ROC) monitoring post , built in 1958 and closed in 1968 due to the

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deeming that the nuclear threat had lessened enough for the closure of many ROC bunkers.

Community

Local amenities and landmarks include a

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and war memorial. Penyffordd has its own Village Institute,

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group and local youth club. An annual children's competition called the ''Penyffordd and Penymynydd Youth Festival'' is held in the village. Sport and leisure in the village includ
Pen-y-ffordd Tennis Club
a bowling green, and Penyffordd Dancing School. The village has two pubs, the Red Lion and the Millstone. The village is served b
Ysgol Penyffordd
(comprising the former Penyffordd County Primary and Abbots Lane Infant schools). The local

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i
Castell Alun High School
which is in the nearby village of

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. Penyffordd has two places of worship: Trinity Chapel (

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) and Emmanuel (

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). Penyffordd railway station is on the Corwen road, which is on the Borderlands Line from

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to Bidston in

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References

External links

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