Flint (Wales)

town in Wales, United Kingdom

Flint (Welsh: Y Fflint) is the county town of Flintshire.

Understand

Get in

  • West of Chester just off the A55
  • 🌍 Flint railway station. On the North Wales Coast Line Crewe - Holyhead (updated Nov 2016)

Get around

See

  • 🌍 Flint castle. Ruins of 13th century castle. It was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales. 

Do

  • Wales Coast Path follows the entire Welsh coastline. Going north to south, the first stage starts at the border at the edge of Chester, and is 29 miles / 47 km via Flint to Prestatyn. These early miles are industrial and brownfield, with great vistas of mud when the tide's out on the Dee estuary.
  • Football: Flint Town United ("The Silkmen") play soccer in the Cymru Premier League. That's the top tier within Wales, but mostly amateur and on a par with England's fifth tier National League. Their home ground is Cae-y-Castell (sponsored as Essity Stadium), capacity 1000, on the coast near the railway station.
Connah's Quay Nomads also play in the Cymru Premier League. In spite of their name they do have a regular home ground at Deeside Stadium, capacity 1500, two miles southeast of Flint town centre.

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Go next

Routes through Flint
Llandudno ← Holywell ←  NW  SE  → Deeside → Manchester


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