Mostyn

Coordinates: 53°18′50″N 3°16′08″W / 53.314°N 3.269°W / 53.314; -3.269

Mostyn is a small village in Flintshire, Wales, and electoral ward lying on the estuary of the River Dee, located near the town of Holywell.

Mostyn once served as a port from which ferries used to sail (until 2004) to Dublin on the Liverpool-Dublin route. Today, manufactured wings for the Airbus A380 aircraft leave Mostyn on the ship Ville De Bordeaux, after travelling down the River Dee by barge from the Airbus wing factory at Broughton, Flintshire. See Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit for more details of the transportation.

Mostyn Port has been the construction base for some of the Irish Sea Offshore Windfarms –

North Hoyle, (Constructed 2003–2004)

Burbo Bank (2006–2007)

Rhyl Flats, (2008–2009)

Gwynt y Môr (2012–2015)

Also some of the work for the Robin Rigg and Walney windfarms.

Between 1848 and 1966 there was a railway station in the village on the Chester to Holyhead line.

Mostyn's port area is home to the headquarters of Warwick International Group Limited, manufacturers of bleach activators for detergent applications.

Mostyn (gallery)

Mostyn (also written MOSTYN) is an art gallery in the North Wales town of Llandudno. It was previously called Oriel Mostyn – 'Oriel' is Welsh for 'Gallery' – but was rebranded as simply Mostyn following its 2010 revamp.

Background

The gallery was re-established in 1978 in a building that was originally built for wealthy local arts benefactor and photographer, Lady Augusta Mostyn, in 1901. The original Mostyn Art Gallery ran from 1901–1913 and was the home of the Gwynedd Ladies’ Arts Society (GLAS). It was believed to be the first art gallery in the world created for the purpose of showing the work of women artists. The three (originally five) bay building, faced in red brick and terracotta, is Grade II listed, as a building by the Mostyn Estate architect, G. A. Humphreys, that helps define Llandudno.

The same Edwardian building became available in the late 1970s and was proposed as the home of a new gallery for North Wales. It was officially opened on 11 August 1979.

It reopened again in May 2010 after a £5 million refurbishment, partly financed by a £3 million grant from the Arts Council of Wales. The refurbishment of the original galleries and the new extension was by Ellis Williams Architects, and won the Gold Medal for Architecture from the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 2011. The gallery rebranded itself as Mostyn, dropping the word 'Oriel' and upsetting some local people by dropping the Welsh prefix.

Mostyn (disambiguation)

Mostyn is a village and port in Flintshire, Wales. It may also refer to: