Brynford, Flintshire

Historical Description

Brynford, a township in Holywell parish, and an ecclesiastical parish in Holywell and Ysceifiog parishes, Flintshire. The township lies 2 miles SE of Holywell. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1853. Post town, Holywell. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 704. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Asaph; gross value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of St Asaph.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Flintshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Brynford are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online:

• Western Mail
• Baner ac Amserau Cymru
• The Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser
• The North Wales Chronicle