GREENFIELD, a township, in the parish of HOLYWELL, and partly within the limits of the newly-created borough of HOLYWELL,
in the Holywell division of the hundred of COLESHILL, county of FLINT, NORTH WALES, 1+ mile (N. E.) from Holywell. The
population is included in the return for the parish. Here is an ancient mansion of the Mostyns, now occupied by the Parys
Copper mine Company, who possess extensive works on the small stream which falls into the estuary of the Dee, on which
there are other extensive establishments, consisting chiefly of mills for the manufacture of cotton twist, an account of
which is given in the article on the parish. In this township is also included the celebrated mine called the Holywell
Level; and within its limits are situated the ruins of the ancient abbey of Basingwerk, near which runs the ancient line
of demarcation called Wat's Dyke.