Northop

• Bartlett, J. and K. M. Ellis. Remembering the dead in Northop: Journal of Contemporary History, 34 (April 1999)
• Devlin, Mike. Tranquillity and infamy in Northop Country Quest. (September 2005), p. 14-15
• Evans, David Sir Price Davies, Rector of Blisland Parish: Two letters, 1763, 1765 Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 24 1969/70 Welsh Journals Online
• Hawkes, G I. The Astbury family of Hawarden parish and of Galchog Hall, Northop Buckley: the magazine of the Buckley Society. No. 18 (Spring 1994), p. 16-31
• Jennings, J M Further notes on the Reverend Price Davies Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 24 1969/70 Welsh Journals Online
• Jones, P. Bryan. Life in Starkey Lane, Northop and Flint Mountain 1914-1936 (with special reference to the Carter family) from the diaries of the Revd. J.A.M. Sheal Hel achau, No. 98 (September 2008), p. 17-18
• Lloyd, George Owen Jones of Northop Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 21 1964 Welsh Journals Online
• Phillips, J. A circular walk from Northop including part of Wat's Dyke Proceedings of the Dyserth and district field club, 2009, p. 92-94
• Pritchard, T W Northup Grammar school Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 29 1979/80 Welsh Journals Online
• Rawsthorne, Lawrence. The library of the Bankes family of Soughton Hall and Mynachlog, in Northop, Clwyd : Mold : Clwyd County Council Library and Information Service, c1994
• Sheal, John Allen. The Rev John Allen Sheal's diaries Hel achau, No. 98 (September 2008), p. 18-26
• Sheal, John Allen. The Rev. John Allon [sic. Allen] Sheal's diaries, 1911-1937 at Ty Gwyn, Starkey Lane, Northop, Flintshire Clwyd Historian = Hanes Bro Clwyd. No. 55 (Autumn 2006), p. 24-28
• Smith, P and P Hayes Llyseurgain and the tower Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 22 1965/6 Welsh Journals Online

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of Northrop Hall, English Presbyterian Chapel

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 246685.
There is evidence of a church at Northop as early as the 6th century. The present building was extensively re-built in 1840, and underwent further alterations in 1877.
The church is dedicated to Saints Peter and Eurgain.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Northop :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Northop area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Flintshire Record Office, the Denbighshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  They have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Northop area are held at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden.
  They have not been filmed; and they have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :

• Note - This Wesleyan Methodist chapel was grouped into a "Circuit", with one set of registers serving the Circuit.
  It may not always be possible to identify the particular chapel in which the ceremony was performed.

When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Northop was assigned to the No. 3 ("Flint") sub-district of the Holywell Registration District, which was co-extensive with the Holywell poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Northop are found under:

• Years 1837 - 1851: Holywell XXVII. nnn
• Years 1852 - 1946: Holywell 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

Northop Village site

Northop - on wikipedia

• Geograph
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The transcription of the section for this place from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Northop to another place.

Church and village scene at Northop, Flintshire on the People's Collection Wales site

"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

Map of the parish of Northop in the County of Flint by which the apportionment of the rentcharge of the said parish was made under the Tithe Commutation Act on the People's Collection Wales site

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ252687 (Lat/Lon: 53.209903, -3.122177), Northop which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• In 1831- the population was 3026.
• In 1901- the population was 1550.
  [ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]

OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL;OLD FREE SCHOOL, NORTHOP on the People's Collection Wales site

Archdeacon Thomas (1911) gives the area of the parish as 3260 acres.