Holywell, a market-town of Flintshire, has an elevated situation, 15 m. NW. of Chester; the principal industry is the smelting of lead, iron, copper, and zinc ores obtained from the surrounding mines; the famous well of St. Winifred (whence the name of the town) is over-built by a fine Perpendicular chapel.
Population (circa 1900) given as 3,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Holyrood * Homburg