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Northop is a village in the county of Flintshire in North East Wales. It sits midway between the town of Flint to the north, and the county town of Mold to the south. Records indicate that there was a stone church erected here during the 12th century. The church was enlarged in the late 15th Century under the patronage of Margaret Beaufort (mother of Henry V11). The building of the fine Perpendicular tower, initiated in the late 15th to 16th Century, was completed to its 98-foot height in 1571.

For many centuries Northop was a bustling village and a welcome haven for weary packhorse trains, post riders and Mail coaches. Six or seven centuries ago the route through Northop formed a vital link for medieval traders between the towns of Chester on the English border and Denbigh in the Vale of Clwyd. In 1602 Northop became a post town on the London to Holyhead post road, and by 1776 there were seven Inns in Northop. In the heyday of the coaching route there were seven Inns in Northop sadly only two of the original seven Inns survive. The Red Lion was originally an inn with a coach house. Between 1785 and 1811 when the coaches..... more information about Northop