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Making for the coastal resorts or mountains of Snowdonia, you might be tempted to charge headlong through Flintshire and Denbighshire , two small counties hard up against the English border. No sooner have you cleared the industrial hinterland that spreads over the border from Chester than you hit the North Wales coast, a twenty-mile stretch from the end of the Dee estuary to Colwyn Bay which constitutes the ugliest piece of Welsh coastline: almost the entire length is taken up by caravan parks. Inland, however, there are one or two very interesting diversions, notably St Asaph , home to Britain's smallest cathedral. Two miles to the north is the second of Edward I's castles at Rhuddlan , and a few miles west, the National Portrait Gallery's Welsh outpost at

Bodelwyddan ; all are easily accessed from the brash resort town of Rhyl.

The country flanking the salt marshes of the Dee estuary was once contested by Marcher lords, but skirmishes were quashed by the construction of Flint Castle, the earliest of Edward I's Iron Ring of fortresses and now an insubstantial ruin overlooking the estuary at Flint. Understated Holywell has been an important pilgrimage site for the last thirteen hundred years, but now quietly ticks by almost unvisited.

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