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Also known as Pen-y-ffordd

Penyffordd, or Pen-y-ffordd, 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 – roughly translated as . The resident population of Penyffordd, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 3,715, increasing to 3,874 at the 2011 census.

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Place details

Locality
Penyffordd
Region
Cymru / Wales
Country
United Kingdom
Population
3,554
Timezone
Europe/London

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

UK place.country
Wales
UK place.type
Village and community
UK place.welsh_name
Pen-y-ffordd
UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
Alyn and Deeside
UK place.official_name
Penyffordd
UK place.static_image_name
Millennium Clock, Penyffordd (1).JPG
UK place.static_image_caption
Millennium Clock, Penyffordd
UK place.population
3,874
UK place.population_ref
(2011 Census)
UK place.community_wales
Penyffordd
UK place.unitary_wales
Flintshire
UK place.lieutenancy_wales
Clwyd
UK place.constituency_westminster
Alyn and Deeside
UK place.post_town
Chester
UK place.postcode_district
CH4
UK place.postcode_area
CH
UK place.dial_code
01244
UK place.os_grid_reference
SJ301617

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
community
Official name
Pen-y-ffordd
Located in
Flintshire
Population
3874
Image
Millennium Clock, Penyffordd - geograph.org.uk - 3443720.jpg
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OS grid reference
SJ301617
postal code
CH4
Commons category
Penyffordd
historic county
Flintshire
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Community
  • References
  • External links

Penyffordd, or Pen-y-ffordd, 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 – roughly translated as . The resident population of Penyffordd, as measured in the 2001 Census, was 3,715, increasing to 3,874 at the 2011 census.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penyffordd” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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