Nannerch is a village and

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, Wales, located within the

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. At the 2001 Census the population of Nannerch was 531, reducing to 496 in 2011.

History

Nannerch (pronounced Nan-er-ch Welsh) is one of the ancient

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es of Flintshire, made up of the townships of Trellan, Trefechan, Trecwm and Tre Penbedw. It is an ancient village, sitting on bedrock of

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, overlain by glacial

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with glacial hollows. The limestone has been used in the construction of many local buildings. The ruins of

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...

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s at Pen-y-Cloddiau and

Moel Arthur Moel Arthur ("Arthur's Hill") is an Iron Age hillfort in Flintshire, Wales, at the boundary with Denbighshire, about east of Denbigh. It is on a prominent hill, height , in the Clwydian Range; it overlooks the Vale of Clwyd to the west. Offa's ...

are situated in the nearby hills. The Church The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels, was consecrated on 29 September 1853. It is the third church known to have been built on the site. The curved wall of the graveyard indicates the ancient origins of the churches. The present church was designed by Thomas W. Wyatt, of London, the architect of the neighbouring churches of Brynford and Gorsedd. Services open to everyone are held in the church at 9.30 am each Sunday. 'Fifth Sunday' services rotate around churches in the Bro Famau group of churches of which St. Michael's church is a member. Nannerch has no shops but has an 18th-century

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called The Cross Foxes. The village also has a primary school. There are currently around 60 pupils enrolled. On the same site as the Victorian primary school is a small sports development consisting of a tennis court which doubles as a basketball/netball court and five-a-side football pitch, a grass football pitch and a bowling green. The bowling green also has a French-style boules piste next to it. Nannerch is sometimes visited by a doctor at the village hall on Tuesday morning. On Thursday there is a Post Office counter in the hall.

Theatre

The village has a dramatic group called the Nannerch Players. The Players perform two shows a year; one of these will be a pantomime, performed just before Christmas. One full-length play performed in the summer months (usually May–June) and give out the golden lemon award to a great performance which this year was given to Carys Grieve.

Transport

The main A541

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- Denbigh road bypasses the village. The

Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway The Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway was a railway company that built a railway line in North Wales. It formed a link between the Mold Railway (from Chester) and the Vale of Clwyd Railway towards Rhyl. The line opened in 1869. Serving a lar ...

, which opened in 1869, passed through the village. Nannerch railway station was situated near the point where the road into Nannerch forks left to leave the A541 road from Mold. After the line was closed in 1962, a victim of the Beeching Axe, the station was converted to a private dwelling with a garden between the platforms.Jones, Mark: ''Lost Railways Of North Wales'', page 69. Countryside Books, 2008 It was demolished shortly afterwards to allow the road to be straightened. Besides passenger traffic, the station provided for the transportation of cattle and sheep heading for market, the distribution of local milk and the delivery of newspapers to the community.

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