Greenfield Valley Heritage Park and Museum
Greenfield, Near Holywell, Flintshire, CH8 7QB.
The Holywell stream runs through Greenfield Valley, heading north east to join the sea at Greenfield Harbour, Holywell. It was home to a number of factories, and footpaths lead vsitors past or though the industrial remains. Information available from display boards about the buildings is limited. Presumably more information is available from the museum, but this is closed during the winter.
This map and this map (1910/1912 25" O.S.) show the industrial buildings at that time, which were, heading downstream:-
* Upper Mill (woollen)
* Lower Mill (woollen)
* Greenfield Mills (flannel)
* Meadow Mills (rubber grinding and washing). Meadow Mill was erected in 1787 by the Greenfield Copper and Brass Co. It was later used by the Holywell Tin Plate Co, which ceased trading in 1870. The site remained unoccupied when it was sold in September 1895 by Churton, Elphick and Co, and the next recorded leaseholder was Messrs Eyre & Co who used the site for rubber grinding and washing. See Coflein website for map, images, and historical information relating to Meadow Mills.[1]
* Victoria Mills (disused by 1910)
* St. Winefride's Soap Works
* Abbey Mills (paper). This was named after the nearby ruined Basingwerk Abbey.
There was also a railway running down the valley, but this was disused by 1910.