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Bridlewood Riding Centre View website
All visitors are greeted with a warm welcome at Bridlewood, we are happy for you to come and look around our stables at any time, or you can come and browse our Tack Shop where you will find a wide selection of top branded equestrian clothing and equipment Family run Pony Club Bridlewood aims to offer a great selection of children’s horse and pony themed activities and days.
We are a family run business and we aim to provide fun and learning activities for your children. We are a registered Pony Club Centre, and your children can work towards a recognised achievement award while still having fun and learning how to care for a pony.
Flint Castle
There is much to see at Flint Castle, if you look closely - views across the estuary bring us in contact with England, and the Wirral; the remains of the outer ditch, revetted with stonework, can be followed along the road before the castle, and, with a little imagination, can be quite easily reconstructed in your mind's eye; the waters of the adjoining estuary once ran up to the slopes of the castle's bailey, covering the car park, and would have provided an excellent defensive barrier; the great keep, or donjon, is a remarkable structure, unlike any other in Britain; and, most interesting, the scratches of mason's marks can be detected on stone blocks throughout the castle. While Flint Castle is under the care of CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments, it is freely open to the public, which not only makes it available for visiting at virtually any moment, but also makes it vulnerable to vandalism. Flint Castle needs our special attention. It is a masterful work of architectural genius that gives tribute to Edward I's master mason, James of St. George, and deserves the attention given to its greater sisters - Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, and Beaumaris - the "Big Four" in the northwest.
Gorsedd stones
In the 19th century the national eisteddfod became a symbol for the promoting of Welsh culture, the 1860 festival at Llangollen and the 1861 festival at Aberdare are considered the first national eisteddfods. The eisteddfod is held every year, alternately in north and south Wales, in 2001 the site was Denbigh. The Gorsedd, the organizing body, proclaims the next eisteddfod by holding a ceremony inside a circle of stones. The circle consists of twelve stone pillars, sometimes from the local area and sometimes, the stones have been brought in to represent the Welsh counties, such as at Aberystwyth.
Greenfield Valley Heritage Park View website
A seventy acre country park with woodlands, reservoirs, ancient monuments and industrial history close to the town of Holywell and St. Winefride's Well.
A free Visitor Centre, which is also the entrance to a Museum and Farm, has information on woodland walks, educational activities, fishing and bird watching in the area.
The Museum & Farm has an attractive collection of original and reconstructed local buildings, which provide a fascinating insight into times past.
Hawarden Castle - Gladstones home
Hawarden Castle, near Hawarden, was the family seat of the Glynne family. Formerly known as Broadlane Hall, the property was acquired by Sir John Glynne (1603-1666), the sixth baronet, and rebuilt by him c. 1750-7. The new house, constructed of brick with stone dressings, had two side pavilions and a main block of three storeys, seven bays and a three-bay pediment. This house forms the nucleus of the present building. Nothing of this earlier house is immediately obvious externally, for it was enlarged and recased in 1809-10 for Sir Stephen Richard Glynne (the ninth baronet), who renamed it Hawarden Castle. In 1839, Sir Stephen's daughter, Catherine, married W. E. Gladstone (1809-1898), Prime Minister, and Hawarden Castle became their marital home.
St Marys Church, Cilcain
St Mary's church occupies a sub-circular churchyard on the western edge of Cilcain village and is a double-naved structure with a western tower. Parts of the northern nave have been attributed to the 12th or 13thC, but most of the church including the tower is 15thC. The south nave has a spectacular Perpendicular hammerbeam roof, traditionally thought to have come from Basingwerk Abbey. There is a fragmentary font, perhaps of Norman origin, some broken 14thC sepulchral slabs, and a small amount of 16thC stained glass. The north nave is now partitioned off and used only as a vestry.
St Winefrides Well View website
The legend of St Winefride tells how in 660AD, an enraged local chieftain severed the head of the young Winefride after she spurned his advances, how a spring rose from the ground at the spot where her head fell and how she was later restored to life by her uncle, St Beuno.
The spring became renowned for its healing powers and throughout the centuries and even until today, pilgrims travel here in their thousands from all over the world to bathe in its waters and worship at its shrine that has become known as the Lourdes of Wales.
Friday 25 May 2012
