| Cadole | |
|---|---|
.jpg) A494 at Cadole | |
  Cadole Location within Flintshire | |
| OS grid reference | SJ204628 |
| Community | |
| Principal area | |
| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MOLD |
| Postcode district | CH7 |
| Dialling code | 01352 |
| Police | North Wales |
| Fire | North Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Cadole is a village in Flintshire, Wales. It lies west of Gwernymynydd and Mold (Yr Wyddgrug), south of Gwernaffield and to the east of the Clwydian Range, part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.[2]
The name appears as Cat-hole, Cat Hole and Cathole on eighteenth century maps, and the village was still known by this name in living memory. The Place-Names of Flintshire states that the name was deliberately changed to its modern spelling following the gentrification of the area, so that the name could be derived from the Welsh place name elements 'Cae' (field) and 'Dôl' (meadow). One reason often given for this deliberate change was that English incomers found the name Cat-hole (or its English homographs) to be unseemly.[3]
- ^ "Home". Gwernymynydd and Cadole community council. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ^ Flintshire Conservation Areas, Flintshire County Council, retrieved 3 August 2009
- ^ Owen, Hywel Wyn (2017). Place-names of Flintshire. Cardiff. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-1786831118.
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