Mold
Mold is a town and community in Flintshire, Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the historic county town and was the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council from 1996 to 2025, as it was of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 10,100 residents
- Description: town and community in Flintshire, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Mold, Flintshire”, “Mold, Wales”, and “Yr Wyddgrug”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bethesda Chapel and St Mary’s Church, Mold.
St Mary’s Church, Mold
Church
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Mold, Flintshire, Wales, and a Grade I listed building. It belongs to the Deanery of Mold, the Archdeaconry of Wrexham and the Diocese of St Asaph of the Church in Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buckley and Gwernymynydd.
Buckley
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clwyd is a preserved county in the eastern part of North Wales. It consists of the unitary authorities Wrexham, Flintshire, Denbighshire, as well as Conwy. Buckley is situated 2½ miles east of Mold.
Gwernymynydd
Village
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gwernymynydd is a village, just outside the market town of Mold, in Flintshire, Wales. It forms part of the Gwernymynydd and Cadole community. At its highest point it is 1000 feet above sea level.
Soughton
Village
Photo: Stephen Charles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sychdyn, or Soughton, is a village in the community of Northop, in Flintshire, Wales. It is situated on the A5119 road, and is just over 1000 yards north of the county town of Mold.
Mold
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.1666° or 53° 9′ 60″ northLongitude
-3.1414° or 3° 8′ 29″ westPopulation
10,100Elevation
377 feet (115 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MOLOpen location code
9C5R5V85+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 25417393OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Mold from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mold” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مولد”
- Asturian: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Basque: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Bengali: “মোল্ড, ফ্লিন্টশায়ার”
- Bengali: “মোল্ড”
- Breton: “Mold”
- Breton: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Bulgarian: “Моулд”
- Catalan: “Mold”
- Catalan: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Cebuano: “Mold”
- Chinese: “Mold”
- Chinese: “莫尔德”
- Chinese: “莫爾德”
- Cornish: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Danish: “Mold (Flintshire)”
- Danish: “Mold”
- Dutch: “Mold”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مولد”
- French: “Mold”
- German: “Mold”
- German: “Wyddgrug”
- Gujarati: “મોલ્ડ”
- Hebrew: “מולד”
- Irish: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Italian: “Mold”
- Japanese: “モールド”
- Japanese: “モルド”
- Kannada: “ಮೋಲ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “몰드”
- Latin: “Mons Altus”
- Latvian: “Molda”
- Lithuanian: “Moldas”
- Livvi: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Manx: “Mold”
- Manx: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mold”
- Northern Frisian: “Mold”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mold”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Norwegian: “Mold”
- Persian: “مولد، فلینتشر”
- Persian: “مولد”
- Polish: “Mold”
- Portuguese: “Mold”
- Russian: “Молд”
- Scots: “Wyddgrug”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Yr Wyddgrug”
- Spanish: “Mold (Gales)”
- Spanish: “Mold”
- Swedish: “Mold, Wales”
- Swedish: “Mold”
- Tamil: “மோல்ட்”
- Telugu: “మోల్డ్”
- Ukrainian: “Молд”
- Urdu: “مولد”
- Welsh: “Wyddgrug”
- Welsh: “Yr Wyddgrug”
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