Village Well. Traditional Cache
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A flat walk from the suggested parking, down a unmade Lane/ public footpath which services the rear of the village houses. You will come to the cache site by the old well (which is capped now).
The story go's - A long time ago as well as the locals getting the water from here the Pirates used to as well!!
Sorry that all I know about it.
23/9/09
I have found a information board in the village today, so made a note of what it said 
Wells were important places : access to pure water was essential for every household. Many wells had ceremonies at particular times of the year to encourage the powers that be to maintain the purity and flow of the water.
Local people believed that the water of Ffynnongroyd had healing powers for sprains, sore eyes and minor ailments. The well also became a social centre where the women would meet and chat as they came to fill buckets with water and maybe do their washing in the overflow from the well.
Clooiers filled their canteens at the well on their way to the pits and reputedly bathed their feet in the soothing outflow as they returned home.
Ffynnongroyw village did not have a piped supply untill the 1930s even then few houses actually had their own piped supply, several households would share a standpipe. Usage of the well continued untill it was officially closed in the latter half of the 1980s.
Conservation work was carried out by Flintshire Services in 1997.
Ffynnongroyw means "clear well" a local legend states that a group of sailors shipwreaked in the River Dee came ashore here found the well and named it Ffynnongroyd.
Ffynnogoyw, spelt Ffynnongroew by the County Council and pronounced Ffynnon-groo by Deesider's is 'the clear-fresh well (now capped).
There are a few more local caches near by if your intrested, Happy Landings body-part (visit link) The Mill on the Hill (visit link) Ffynnongroew Village Vexation (visit link) I could go on but I wont.
Do watch your speed on the A548 the N.Wales Police are very keen. Radar trap 
at Mostyn speed limit 40mph, Radar trap 
at Greenfield speed limit 30mph. Take care 
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Congratulation's to Mancunian Pyrocacher and Dolly Girl who was the 1st to find this Geocache on 27/4/07.
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