Coed Talon station site geograph-3112705-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Coed Talon (also spelt "Coed-talon") is a small, formerly industrial village between

Leeswood Leeswood ( cy, Coed-llai) is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales, about four miles from the historic market town of Mold. At the 2001 Census, the population was 2,143, reducing slightly to 2,135 at the 2011 Census. It ...

and

Treuddyn Treuddyn is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales, located just off the A5104 road, around 4 miles south-east of Mold and 3 miles north-west of Caergwrle. The community includes the nearby village of Coed Talon, to the ea ...

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, Wales. Its name is derived from the Welsh word ''coed'' ("wood") and the word ''talwrn'', anglicised to "Talon", meaning a "hillside devoid of trees" or "threshing-floor" (perhaps referring to a wood beneath a bare hillside).Davies, E. ''Flintshire place-names'', University of Wales Press, 1959, p.38

History

The area, about four miles from the market town of

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, was primarily agricultural until the nineteenth century, when following the discovery of coal and iron ore seams, an ironworks and a series of collieries were opened. In 1892, a bed of fireclay was discovered and a brickworks was subsequently opened. There was also a

silica Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula , most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is one ...

quarry nearby at Waun y Llyn. The industries were served by a branch of the

London and North Western Railway The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom. In 1923, it became a constituent of the Lo ...

, who in 1892 introduced a passenger service to Coed Talon, running over part of the Wrexham and Minera Joint Railway to Brymbo in

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...

.Coed Talon
Disused Stations The station closed in 1950 and the line to Brymbo was taken out of use shortly afterwards, though goods trains from

continued until 1963.

Recent developments

The village still has a pub called the ''Railway Inn''. The small-scale colliery workings at Coed Talon operated until 1987, and were subsequently worked by the

opencast Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a Borrow pit, b ...

method. A brickworks also continued in operation at Coed Talon until relatively recently. What happened to The Coed Talon Hotel as I note it’s not mentioned. The steam train used to pass by Coed Talon CP School in the 1950’s on its way to & from the Silica Works.

References

Villages in Flintshire {{Flintshire-geo-stub