Holywell, Flintshire, Wales Genealogy

A guide to genealogy in Holywell, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.

Holywell (Welsh: Treffynnon) is a town, community and ecclesiastical parish in Flintshire, Wales.

Before 1974 the town was in the historic county of Flintshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Clwyd. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Flintshire.

History
In 1831: "The town of Holywell is situated on the estuary of the Dee nearly opposite to Parkgate. ... It is built on the declevity of a hill gradually extending to the sea, the surrounding hills forming a kind of amphitheatre. ... The town of Holywell ranks the first in the principality of Wales. Its inhabitants are intelligent and enterprising, and few places can boast of society being better cemented, or good cheer and hospitality more uniformly practised." (From The Histories of Holywell, Flint, St. Asaph and Rhuddlan, Poole, 1831)

For more information on Holywell see:
 * | Holywell at Genuki

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Vision of Britain - Holywell

Websites

 * Holywell Parish Church at Clwyd FHS
 * Holywell War Memorial at Clwyd FHS