Nannerch

Village in Flintshire, Wales

Nannerch is a village and community in Flintshire, Wales, located within the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. At the 2001 Census the population of Nannerch was 531, reducing to 496 in 2011.

Nannerch Community Council consists of 8 councillors, and is not divided into wards. The Cilcain and Nannerch communities make up the Cilcain electoral ward on Flintshire County Council, which elects one councillor. Nannerch is part of the Delyn constituency and North Wales region for the Senedd, and of the Delyn constituency for parliament.

The village has a dramatic group called the Nannerch Players. The Players perform two shows a year; one of these will be a pantomime, performed just before Christmas. One full length play performed in the summer months (usually May–June) and give out the golden lemon award to a great performance which was given to Bob Sayers in 2022.

The main A541 Mold Denbigh road bypasses the village. The Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway, which opened in 1869, passed through the village. Nannerch railway station was situated near the point where the road into Nannerch forks left to leave the A541 road from Mold. After the line was closed in 1962, a victim of the Beeching Axe, the station was converted to a private dwelling with a garden between the platforms. It was demolished shortly afterwards to allow the road to be straightened. Besides passenger traffic, the station provided for the transportation of cattle and sheep heading for market, the distribution of local milk and the delivery of newspapers to the community.