Holywell
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- For other uses, see Holywell (disambiguation).
| Holywell | ||
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| Statistics | ||
| Population: | {{{Population}}} | |
| Ordnance Survey | ||
| OS grid reference: | Maps for SJ185755 | |
| Administration | ||
| Principal area: | Flintshire | |
| Constituent country: | Wales | |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom | |
| Other | ||
| Police force: | North Wales Police | |
| Ceremonial county: | Clwyd | |
| Historic county: | Flintshire | |
| Post office and telephone | ||
| Post town: | HOLYWELL | |
| Postal district: | CH8 | |
| Dialling code: | +44-1352 | |
| Politics | ||
| UK Parliament: | Delyn | |
| European Parliament: | Wales | |
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Holywell (Welsh: Treffynnon) is the fifth largest town in Flintshire, north Wales, lying to the west of the estuary of the River Dee.
The town is known for St Winefride's Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel. The well has been known since at least the Roman period, and has been a site of pilgrimage since about 660 when Saint Winefride is said to have been beheaded there. The town bills itself as The Lourdes of Wales.
More recently, the town grew around the lead mining and cotton milling industries.
Holywell hosted an unofficial National Eisteddfod event in 1869.
- Actor Jonathan Pryce was born in Holywell in 1947.
- Former Southampton & Wales footballer Ron Davies was born in Holywell in 1942.
