Welcome to Northop Village Website
Northop is an historic village with a rich mix of building types and styles evolved over the last eight centuries. In particular the medieval church is prominently located and the visual signature of Northop. The High Street is the centre of village life: the Post Office provides a real 'Community' service; the Edith Bankes Memorial Hall hosts many community activities and the pubs are real local pubs. Northop has a vibrant social and cultural life. For a village with a population of no more than 1000 people, the community supports a nationally recognised Championship Silver Band, a regionally successful cricket club, an equine competition centre attracting competitors from throughout North Wales and the North West of England, a championship golf course and a drama group which stages a pantomime each year featuring many local characters to hilarious effect!
Northop Heritage Group
Northop Heritage Group is a small group of Northop residents that exists to promote the unique heritage within and around the village of Northop. The group was formed in 2003 as an offshoot of Northop 2000. Whilst not undertaking extensive primary research, the group relies heavily on existing published material such as the excellent Pride of Northop book available from Northop Post Office. The Group's first promotional activity was the production and publication of the Northop Heritage Trail leaflet. This leaflet, now in its third print run is available widely around the region, distributed to key tourist and retail outlets by members of the group.
Northop Village Website Directory
We've put together a directory of businesses, places of interest, places to stay, places to eat and anything else that may be useful to people who live or are just visiting Northop.
Use the links to the left to go straight to some of categories within the directory or use the main 'Directory' link at the top of the page to see all the categories and browse the entries alphabetically.
To add an entry to the directory please use the contact form and include all the relevant details.
Northop Village Calendar
See whats happening in the village - the calendar is viewable here on the site or you can incorporate it into your own google calendar - see google for more details.
If you'd like your event featured in the calendar please contact us.
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For those who mourn next day post deliveries, imagine a time when the mail man was fined for failing to deliver, a time when if the mail coach was trapped in snow the mail man would have to get on his horse and ensure delivery.
And the ‘spy-in-the-cab’ or tachograph is nothing new - what about a sealed clock placed in your coach in London to record the exact time of your journey.
The fascinating “Historic Mail Route” across North Wales is a travelling exhibition, put together by Northop Heritage group and financed through rural development agency Cadwyn Clwyd, Flintshire County Council and the Northop Community Council.
Cadwyn Clwyd is funding from their Community Heritage Project, which is financed as part of the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013 through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Adam Bishop, Cadwyn Clwyd Heritage Officer, said: “Until the coming of the railway the mail coach was the way to travel and it is an enthralling story.
We are all used to posting a letter or card and to it being delivered to its destination within a day or so. But how did our postal service start and how did it affect your local area?
The Historic mail route exhibition is an interesting and informative insight into the origins of the Mail Route in North Wales.
It tracks the history of the London to Holyhead horse powered mail route from its creation with the horse back post boys through to the horse drawn coaches and stagecoaches and the perils they faced to its demise at the dawn of the steam trains.
The exhibition will first go on public display at the Edith Bankes Memorial Hall in Northop 5.30pm to 8pm on February 11 and then open to the public all day Saturday February 12.
The exhibition has been created by Northop Heritage with the support of the Royal Mail and Cadwyn Clwyd.
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Northop Silver Band has had a few local engagements over the summer including the Festival of Hope which took place in June at the Northop Campus of Glyndwr University. This was a high profile charity event with funds going to Hope House Hospice. Over the next couple of months the band are set to be busy with a few local engagements including the Remembrance Parade in both Northop and Flint on the 14th November; Northop Christmas Fayre on the 4th December and various concerts including Chester Town Hall on the 11th December and the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on the 20th December as part of the the Liverpool Welsh Concert.