Brynford

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Brynford
Brynford shown within the United Kingdom
OS grid reference	SJ180744
Principal area	Flintshire
Ceremonial county	Clwyd
Constituent country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHESTER
Postcode district	CH8
Dialling code	01352
Police	North Wales
Fire	North Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
European Parliament	Wales
UK Parliament	Delyn
Welsh Assembly	Delyn
List of places: UK • Wales • Flintshire

Coordinates: 53°15′39″N 3°13′50″W / 53.26082, -3.23052

Brynford is a village in Flintshire, Wales. It is located to the south west of the town of Holywell and near the A55 road (North Wales Expressway).

Amenities in Brynford include St. Michael's Church, a local shop, two inns, a park, golf club, private day nursery and local bus company Oares Coaches. The Cynfaen Memorial Methodist Chapel, serving Brynford, is in the nearby village of Calcoed. it has been extensivly mined for lead in the past and has been left with the scars of that past all over its common land.

The explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley was a student teacher in the old village school.^[1]