A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 23 



CHAP. II. 



FROM CHESTER TO FLINT. HAWARDEN AND 



CASTLE EULOE CASTLE DEFEAT OF HENRY II. 

 NORTHOP FLINT CASTLE AND GAOL. 



T EAVING Charter, I proceeded on 



my journey towards Holy well. Ha- 



warden,* the firft place that I arrived at, 



is a fmall clean-looking market town in-j- 



Flintfhire. 



* The Saxons called this place Haordine. The 

 Britifh name for it is Pennard Halawg, corrupted 

 probably from Pen y Llwch y or the head land above 

 the lake ; Saltney and the other fubjacent marfhes 

 having been once covered by the fea. Pennant's 

 Tour in Wales, 1784. I. 92. 



t The County of Flint is the fmalleft of the 



Welfh counties, being only about thirty miles long, 



C 4 ten 



