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Lon Odyn, FLINT, CH6 5JJ

Looking across Ffordd Llaneurgain/Northop Road towards Flint cemetery. The first burial in the cemetery was on 18 November 1856.

This grassy path through Flint cemetery leads to the Mortuary Chapel from the gates on Northop Road Image

Looking across Ffordd Llaneurgain/Northop Road towards the gates to the cemetery. The first burial in the cemetery was on the 18th November 1856. The old O.S. maps indicate that there should be a bench mark on the right hand gatepost, but if there ever was one it seems to have weathered away.

This bench mark is at the foot of Ann Moon's cottage, which according to the plaque on the wall was built in 1890. The bench mark is not recorded on the O.S. database, but it is indicated on the 1914 and 1938 maps where the building is marked as a lodge for the adjacent cemetery. See also Image and Image

According to this plaque on the gable end, this cottage was built in 1890 by Ann Moon, and the O.S. maps from 1900 onwards record the building as a lodge for the adjacent cemetery. Ann Moon was the aunt of the wife of Richard Muspratt the chemical manufacturer who moved his chemical works from Liverpool to Flint in the 1800s because of the 'pollution and public nuisance' that his factories had caused in the city. His enterprise in Flint employed over 2,000 people, but it was dirty and unhealthy work, and Richard himself died in 1885 at the age of 63. Possibly this is why Ann Moon chose to provide this lodge cottage for the cemetery? There is a bench mark at the foot of the roadside wall, below and to the right of the plaque.Image

Looking along Ffordd Llaneurgain/Northop Road in the direction of Flint. On the right is the cottage built by Ann Moon in 1890 as a lodge for the adjacent cemetery. Ann Moon was the aunt of the wife of Richard Muspratt the chemical manufacturer who was forced to move his chemical works from Liverpool to Flint in the 1800s because of the 'pollution and public nuisance' that his factories had caused in the city. His enterprise in Flint employed over 2,000 people, but it was dirty and unhealthy work, and Richard himself died in 1885 at the age of 63. Possibly this is why Ann Moon chose to provide this lodge cottage for the cemetery? There is a plaque on the gable end of the cottage Image and a bench mark at the foot of the roadside wall, below and to the right of the plaque Image

The A5119 Northop Road ascends from the Church Road junction. A nearby sign http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5257007 shows 6 miles to Mold.

Looking towards its junction with the A5119.

Heading south on the A5119 Northop Road. Yearsley Group's head office is in Hareshill Road, Heywood, Greater Manchester.

Halkyn Street on the right, the A5119 Northop Road on the left, 6 miles from Mold (Yr Wyddgrug in Welsh).