Mynydd Isa
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 The Griffin public house, Mynydd Isa |
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  Mynydd Isa |
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| OS grid reference | SJ2564 |
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| Principal area | Flintshire |
| Ceremonial county | Clwyd |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MOLD |
| Postcode district | CH7 |
| Dialling code | +44-1352 / +44-1244 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
| UK Parliament | Delyn |
| Welsh Assembly | Delyn |
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Coordinates: 53°10′N 3°07′W / 53.17°N 3.12°W
Mynydd Isa [ˌmənɨ̞ð ˈɪsa] is a village in Flintshire, in north-east Wales. It lies between the county town of Mold, and Buckley. Mynydd Isa was originally a small hamlet on the north side of the Mold to Buckley road (now the A549 road) just downhill from the now demolished Calvinist chapel. It does not appear on Ordnance Survey maps until 1912.
Its placename is Welsh for "lower mountain".
Another old hamlet nearby was Pant-y-Fownog, on the same road nearer Buckley (centred on the Griffin Inn); although the name was used well into the 1900s on picture postcards of the area and by the local Co-Op shop next to the Inn. The name has long since become disused (except for lending its name to a road in nearby Buckley).
Bryn-y-Baal [ˌbrɨ̞nəˈbɑːl] is an old hamlet much enlarged since the 1970s and now contiguous with but not part of Mynydd Isa. Bryn-y-Baal takes its name from a Middle English word "bale" (rhymes with "Carl") meaning small hill. It was later written in a Welsh language form as 'bâl' with a circumflex over the "â". In Welsh this is pronounced as a long A. This form appears on early Ordnance Survey maps. Eventually it was written in the Anglicised form 'Baal' - still correctly pronounced to rhyme with "Carl".[1]
In the area there is a secondary school known as Argoed High School in Bryn-y-Baal and a primary school Ysgol Mynydd Isa - the Junior department being in Bryn-y-Baal (formerly Ysgol y Bryn and before that Mynydd Isa Junior School), and the Infants department (formerly known as Wat's Dyke Infant School) on a separate site in Mynydd Isa.
The local community council is Argoed Community Council (Cyngor Cymunedol Argoed) - Argoed being the name of the ancient township which had covered the area since the Middle Ages, which also gives its name to the local secondary school.
Amenities include a pub, The Griffin on Mold Road. (The Mercia on Mercia Drive closed in 2010), various shops and the village centre which houses the library and other clubs and associations.
The village has a large youth organisation (established in 1984) with football teams representing the village in the county league from 7 to 16 years old and adult football dating back to the 1930s; however the adult team disbanded in 2009.
The village also has a large social media following through the Facebook page: 'The Mynydd Isa Chronicles.'
References
- ↑ Flintshire Place Names by Hwyl Wyn Owen ISBN 978-0-7083-1242-1 (1995)
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