Places to see in ( Holywell - UK )
Places to see in ( Holywell - UK )
Holywell is the fifth largest town in Flintshire, Wales. It lies to the west of the estuary of the River Dee. The market town of Holywell takes its name from the St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel. The well has been known since at least the Roman period. It has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since about 660, dedicated to Saint Winefride who, according to legend, was beheaded there by Caradog who attempted to attack her. The well is one of the Seven Wonders of Wales and the town bills itself as The Lourdes of Wales. Many pilgrims from all over the world continue to visit Holywell and the Well.
The copper sheathing was used to cover the hulls of the wooden ships trading in the warmer Caribbean waters, giving rise to the expression 'copper bottomed investment', the sheathing was also applied to Royal Navy ships and was instrumental in Nelson's victories (two of these copper plates from HMS Victory are in Greenfield Valley Heritage Park museum). There was a railway station in Greenfield that was open between 1848 and 1966. Holywell Town station, at the head of a steeply-climbing branch from Holywell Junction, was closed in 1957.
The wealth generated from these industries led to the development of the town and the High Street still has many Georgian buildings. The Greenfield Valley is well known for the abundance of birds and butterflies and many enthusiasts visit to see the array of species. The Valley also has a number of conserved mills and structures from bygone ages and is the only place in Wales to have seven scheduled ancient monuments. St James parish church is a grade II* listed building. Holywell hosted an unofficial National Eisteddfod event in 1869.
Holywell Junction was on the North Wales Coast Line. The station is closed, and trains run fast through what remains of the station. The station building, by Francis Thompson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway (1848), is listed Grade II*. The LNWR branch line from here to Holywell Town, opened in 1912 and finally closed in 1957.
Holywell is split into four distinct areas: Pen-y-Maes, the Strand, the Holway and the town centre. The Holway, located on the west side of the town, is the largest of the residential areas of Holywell. The near-contiguous village of Greenfield is located to the north east of the town on the B5121 road.
Villages within the Holywell catchment area include: Bagillt, Brynford, Carmel, Gorsedd, Halkyn, Licswm, Lloc, Mostyn, Pantasaph, Pentre Halkyn, Rhes-y-Cae, Trelawnyd, Whitford and Ysceifiog. In addition there are other smaller scattered communities within this area. All of these are within a six-mile radius of Holywell. These villages are all connected to Holywell by a frequent bus service.
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Places to see in ( Flint - UK )
Places to see in ( Flint - UK )
Flint is a town in Flintshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Dee. It was formerly Flintshire's county town, and is today the third largest town in the county. According to the 2001 Census the population of the community of Flint was 12,804, increasing to 12,953 at the 2011 census. There has recently been an Urdd Eisteddfod in flint and people all over wales came to participate.
Flint railway station lies on the North Wales Coast Line, providing services between Manchester Piccadilly station and Llandudno railway station. A north-south service between Cardiff Central railway station and Holyhead also calls, as do selected West Coast Main Line railway stations between London Euston and Holyhead
Flint is located in north-east Wales, adjoining the River Dee, to the north of the town of Mold. Across the River Dee, the Wirral can be seen from Flint and views to the south of the town include Halkyn Mountain. As the crow flies, Flint is located less than 12 miles from the English urban area of Liverpool, and even closer to its metro area. However, due to the two bays/rivers in between, driving distance is almost twice as long.
Edward I began to build Flint Castle in 1277, during his campaign to conquer Wales. Both castle and town were attacked by the forces of Madog ap Llywelyn during the revolt of 1294-95; the defenders of the town burnt it in order to deny its use to the Welsh.
In 1969 Flint hosted the National Eisteddfod, and so the town has a circle of Gorsedd stones in the field adjacent to Gwynedd County Primary School. In July 2006 the stones were centre stage in the National Eisteddfod Proclamation Ceremony which formally announced Mold as the 2007 host town of the event.
Flint once had its own low-powered television relay transmitter, designed to provide improved coverage of Welsh channels in an area that would otherwise receive only English television signals. Since 2009, signals are now transmitted from Storeton transmitting station on the Wirral. Perhaps one of the town's most striking images, in addition to the castle, is the group of three tower blocks of flats near the town centre. The first two blocks were built in the 1960s and named Bolingbroke Heights and Richard Heights, with a third, Castle Heights, added shortly afterwards. Flint has a local football team Flint Town United. They play in the Cymru Alliance.
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Urbex - Llanberis Bunker/RAF Cache - June 2017
Just outside Llanberis in North Wales is a disused slate quarry which was converted into a huge two-storey underground bunker during WWII. The Air Ministry used it as a munitions cache during the early 1940s, storing large quantities of incendiary bombs there.
In January 1942 more than half of the giant structure collapsed, burying roughly 14,000 tons of bombs, around 14% of the RAF's entire stockpile. Over the decades that followed, the collapsed section was cleared, leaving a large rectangular hole which is clearly visible on Google Maps. Over the decades that followed, the site was used to dump explosives, train cadets at the RAF School of Explosives, and was finally cleared of all dumped munitions between 1969 and 1975.
I had a couple of hours spare, so I grabbed by GoPro and torch and dropped in to have a look. I'd been here before in 2010 and parts of the site had been more accessible back then. For example, the yellow door towards the back of the inner structure (with telltale running water sounds coming from inside) leads to a rocky tunnel which opens out into a 70ft-deep fissure, part of the old quarry. The bulkhead was added since last time I was here. Attempts have been made to cut a hole in the bulkhead wide enough to squeeze through, but so far nobody managed it. I did have a scout around to see if I could find the chasm from the surface, but I never found a safe way round there. If there turns out to be one, I might go back with some climbing gear and check it out. Leave a comment if you came across it.
The interior of the bunker is much bigger than I made it look in this video. I didn't have much time, so I just gave a brief overview. The rest of the structure is pretty empty, but worth a look, especially as various graffiti artists have added deliberately creepy and unsettling images to the walls which are pretty scary on your own, by torchlight. One tag, which I glimpsed for a second, reads Beware of faces in the dark.
Another great thing about this bunker is the acoustics inside. The whole site is about the size of two football fields, and the harsh concrete walls make for an immensely long reverb. I tried to demonstrate it by clapping and whistling in the video, but I didn't do it justice. The long halls and parallel walls also throw echoes of your own movements back at you which are so long it genuinely sounds like somebody else is there in the darkness with you, somewhere in the distance.
I use different entry and exit routes in this video. The route I took out is easier and less conspicuous because it's not within sight of a main road. The road I reach when I end the video is not publicly open to vehicles, in case anybody thought I was casually kneeling in the middle of a public road, drinking water.
Camera: GoPro Hero4 Black Edition - 1080p, 30fps, ProTune.
Mic: Sennheiser lavalier mic (which managed to pick up an awful lot of panting from me)
Info about the history of the site came from here:
The Mold Denbigh Ruthin Circular Walk : Part Two - Denbigh to Ruthin
Journey along the Vale Of Clwyd with intrepid travellers Peter Glynn and Paul Humphreys. Encounter scenery , sheep , traffic , tractors , chapels and other stuff.
Killhope Lead Mining Museum (23rd May 2017)
23rd May 2017
In setting up my new channel there were a couple of videos that I couldn't transfer across because I was unable to either edit out the copyright material or edit out my daughter's name. A visit with my daughter to Killhope Lead Mining Museum was one of those videos. So I chose to go back to Killhope and reshoot my video but this time bringing with me a brighter torch than the ones they give you which are set to the same brightness as one candle.
In this video, I take you around the outbuildings of the mine. In the next video titled 'Park Level Mine', I take you into the mine itself (
In this video I do not include the red squirrel hide or the examples of bell mines that are part of the museum but sited further up the hill.
Killhope forms the end of the Lead Road, although this video does not end my series of walking the Lead Road. I still have at least a couple more walks to do with regards to the Lead Road series. I had intended on walking one of those walks but I miscalculated the distance involved and as such worked out I didn't have time to do the walk and be back in time to pick up my daughter from school, so I headed to Killhope and Groverake mine instead.
It was a little windy so please excuse the wind noise.
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