Boxing Day Meal, Boxing Day Menu, Boxing Day Events

Boxing Day Meal in Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales – Eat Boxing Day Dinner At The Glan!

What better way to spend Boxing Day than eating out and being waited on hand and foot at the Glan yr Afon Inn, Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales?

This 16th Century Coaching Inn overlooking the River Dee is celebrating it’s 450th Anniversary this year and will be 451 in 2010 !!

No more slaving over a hot oven, no family rows and more importantly, no washing up – see our fantastic boxing day menu below, and download the PDF here:

http://glanyrafoninn.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/boxing-day-meal-in-holywell-flintshire-eat-boxing-day-dinner-at-the-glan/

Menu

BROCCOLI SOUP
OAK SMOKED SALMON AND HORSERADISH
DUCK ORANGE AND CRANBERRY TERRINE WITH A RED BEETROOT
CHUTNEY
TRIO OF MELON
GOATS CHEESE AND RED ONION TART
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ROAST TURKEY WITH GRAVY, BACON ROLLS AND TRIMMINGS
SALMON WITH PARSNIP PUREE AND A CHIVE BUTTER SAUCE
BRAISED BEEF WITH PEARL ONIONS AND VEGETABLES
BABY LEEK AND ROAST AUBERGINE PIE
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SWEETS AS PER SPECIALS BOARD
MAIN COURSE £9.95
2 COURSES £11.25
3 COURSES £15.95

Holywell – accommodation, history and more

If you’re long time followers of The Glan yr Afon, you’ll know that we’re situated in Holywell, Flintshire. But what do you know about our lovely area?

If you’re looking for accommodation in Holywell, then you might be interested in finding out more about the area – here are just a few resources to help you out!

Wikipedia tells us that:

The market town of Holywell takes its name from the St Winefride’s Well, a holy well surrounded by a chapel.[4] The well has been known since at least the Roman period, and has been a site of pilgrimage since about 660 when Saint Winefride was beheaded there by Caradog who attempted to rape her.[5] The well is one of the Seven Wonders of Wales and the town bills itself as The Lourdes of Wales.

From the 18th century, the town grew around the lead mining and cotton milling industries.

The Holywell Wikipedia page also talks about demographics, community and famous local people. Did you know that TV presenter Gaz Top comes from Holywell? Neither did we!

The Holywell Town website has a huge range of information, including tourist details, details of clubs and societies and local events. It’s currently being updated but still well worth a look, and it tells us that:

The villages within the Holywell catchment area include: Bagillt, Brynford, Carmel, Gorsedd,  Halkyn, Lixwm,  Lloc, Mostyn, Pantasaph, Pentre Halkyn, Rhes-y-Cae, Rhosesmor, Trelawnyd, Whitford, Ysceifiog and the town of Caerwys.

If you visit the Holywell TripWolf site, you can download a nice little PDF with all sorts of usefull details, including Holywell accommodation – of course the Glan is recommended in there!

Finally, we love Holywell, but sometimes words can’t tell you how beautiful a place is and you need pictures – see this Flickr search for some great Holywell photography.

Coming to North Wales? Check out the Glan yr Afon Inn video!

This video shows the Glan Yr Afon Inn in Holywell.

The Glan is a 16th Century Inn which has traditional and contemporary elements.

The Glan has a beautiful restaurant serving fresh, good value, locally sourced food; a bar, serving traditional ales and a reasonably priced wine selection; a games room; a function room – for conferences, meetings and celebrations and also has a number of fully fittted, tradionally decorated rooms.

The Glan looks out over the River Dee and sits above the famous Milwr Tunnel

Sub Aqua Diving club, Flintshire, can now splash out!

The Flintshire Sub-Aqua Diving Club meet every Wednesday at Holywell Leisure Centre, where they conduct diver training and organise the week’s diving events.

They’ll be ‘splashing out’ on new equipment, including two buoyancy control devices, which help divers to stay at a constant depth and descend or ascend in a controlled way as well as breathing regulators after scooping £1,000 from the Sports Council for Wales’ funding scheme.

Weekly training events attract up to 40 divers, and guests are welcome – so just the place if you’re a budding diver and planning on staying at The Glan Yr Afon! (Check out our other activities too!)

Thanks to The Evening Leader for flagging this one up!