Picture-postcard Villages in North Wales.
Both are within a Designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, lying on the east side of the Clwydian Range.

Please click the 'Old Cilcain' button above.

Where are they?

Cilcain is 6 miles west of Mold in Flintshire, North Wales.
It is 18 miles west of Chester.
Take the A541 from Mold towards Denbigh, and turn left after 6 miles at Star Crossing for Cilcain.

Nannerch is 1 mile further along the A541.

Clwydian Range

The Clwydian Mountain Range extends for some 20 miles, from Prestatyn on the coast in the north, down to Llandegla in the south. There are 9 summits exceeding 1,000' high. The highest is Moel Famau (Mother of Mountains) on the slopes of which sits Cilcain. At its peak lie the ruins of the Jubilee Tower built in 1812. There are subsidiary peaks crowned with ruins of massive hill forts - Foel Fenlli (near Llanferres), Moel-y-Gaer (near Llanbedr); Moel Arthur (near Cilcain) and Pen-y-Cloddiau (near Nannerch). The forts had multiple protective ramparts, and were all constructed around 2,000 years ago during the early Iron Age or Bronze Age. See the section 'Hill Forts' on the 'Old Cilcain' page.