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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!
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Heritage Trail Sign Board |
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Northop Heritage Group have unveiled a new information board in the village car park depicting the popular Northop Heritage Trail. Previously only available as a leaflet or on this website, the Trail can now be seen by anyone arriving in the village. The Trail focusses on Northop's role as a resting point on the old London to Holyhead Stage Coach route. In its heyday the village had seven inns to accommodate passengers and service the horses. The Heritage Group were joined by Sandy Mewies AM, Cllr Mel Higham and Cllr Rob Mackie for the official ribbon cutting
ceremony.
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With Spring finally here, and all the daffodils and tulips making a lovely display in the village our thoughts turn to maintaining Northop's impressive record in the Flintshire Best Kept Village Competition. In 2008 Northop came joint first with Caerwys for villages with a population between 1000 and 5000. Our senior citizens also did us proud by coming first in the larger senior citizens estate category. However, the village doesn't win without help from many people in the community who join in the litter picks and help with the planted displays. The first two litter picks of the season have taken place with the last one on the 4th July just before judging. All equipment is provided you just need to show up in the band hall car park at 10am. If you are unable to come along but would like to support by giving a donation or helping in some other way in your own time please contact Rosemary on 07736 625 853. All help greatly appreciated. |
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The Northop website is in it's early days of existence. So far we have tried to put a cross section of general interest information here. If you have any ideas for content or have seen something you think unsuitable please feel free to contact the website administration team using the online form . |
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