Penyffordd

This article is about the village near Buckley, Flintshire. For the hamlet near Mostyn, Flintshire, see Pen-y-ffordd.

Penyffordd, or Pen-y-ffordd,^[1] is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales, situated to the south east of Buckley and to the west of Chester. The name is derived from the Welsh Pen Y Ffordd – roughly translated as 'the highest or furthest point of the road'. The resident population of Penyffordd, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 3,715,^[2] increasing to 3,874 at the 2011 census.^[3]

Penyffordd Welsh: Pen-y-ffordd
Village and community
Millennium Clock, Penyffordd
Penyffordd Location within Flintshire
Population	3,874 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SJ301617
Community	Penyffordd
Principal area	Flintshire
Preserved county	Clwyd
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Chester
Postcode district	CH4
Dialling code	01244
Police	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Alyn and Deeside
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Alyn and Deeside
Website	penyfforddcouncil.org
List of places UK Wales Flintshire 53.148°N 3.045°W / 53.148; -3.045 Map of the community

Penyffordd lies to the east of A550, south of its junction with the A55 (North Wales Expressway). The ward 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 hamlet named Pen-y-ffordd is also in Flintshire. It is located between Holywell and Prestatyn, near Mostyn.

History

Penyffordd was home to a Royal Observer Corps (ROC) monitoring post , built in 1958 and closed in 1968 due to the British Government deeming that the nuclear threat had lessened enough for the closure of many ROC bunkers.

Abandoned RAF aircraft observation post at the site of the ROC bunker.

Community

Penyffordd Station (1987)

Local amenities and landmarks include a village hall and war memorial. Penyffordd has its own Village Institute, Scout group, Girl Guides 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 include 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 by Ysgol Penyffordd^{[permanent dead link]} (comprising the former Penyffordd County Primary and Abbots Lane Infant schools). The local secondary school is Castell Alun High School, which is in the nearby village of Hope.

Penyffordd has two places of worship: Trinity Chapel (Presbyterian & Methodist) and Emmanuel (Church in Wales).

Penyffordd railway station is on the Corwen road, which is on the Borderlands Line from Wrexham to Bidston in Birkenhead.