Built in the mid 1700s at the crossroads of two old coaching routes, the Blue Bell Inn is purportedly named after a local privateer’s boat the Blue Bell. 
Legend has it that he was later caught and hanged for his piracy and is thought to be buried a few hundred yards away in the cemetery next to Halkyn Castle. How to find us.
We are an independent, family run, award winning freehouse, we've scooped three major prizes this year - Regional Pub of the Year [North Wales, Cheshire & Merseyside], Vale of Clwyd Branch CAMRA Pub of the Year and CAMRA Branch Cider Pub of the Year, we are also runner-up Flintshire Evening Leader Pub of the Year 2008. At 850 feet we are near the top of Halkyn Mountain with spectacular 70 mile views over the Dee & Mersey rivers, the distant Cumbrian mountains & Pennine hills.  With an extensive events list we are enjoyed by walkers, riders, cyclists, folk & jazz musicians, game players and locals alike. Our award winning walk can be downloaded from here and you can use our free wireless internet to stay in touch. Real fires in winter add to the warm welcome.
We’ve had hundreds of different cask ales to date and our own local Welsh brewed Blue Bell Bitter is always on along with other regularly changing real ales, ciders and perrys - we even make our own Rosie's Blue Bell Cider. You will find us in the Good Pub, Cider and Beer Guides and we have a Cask Marque for quality, in fact we are one of the highest scoring cask marque pubs in the UK! We also have a good selection of great wines from around the world, a large range of soft dinks, FairTrade tea’s, coffee’s and hot chocolate.
Our food is a mixture of locally sourced, home-made and traditional meals ranging from lighter bites to those that challenge the hungry.
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- The Blue Bell Inn is a no television, no jukebox, no swearing, traditional country pub with lots of good conversation, laughter, board and pub games and we have a great range of beers, ciders, wines, soft drinks, fairtrade tea's, coffees and chocolate all guaranteed to raise your spirits!
- If you are hungry try here for our menu - we try our best to make good local home made food. Keeping an eye on our food miles is easy with an excellent organic vegetable producer and Midlist Buffalo farm on our doorstep.
- Check out the Beer & Cider Log (BLOG) for our ever changing list of real ales ciders and perrys and here for beer & cider links.
- Every Monday evening we'll be teaching conversational Welsh
- Every Tuesday evening we open our doors to all who enjoy board games (you can play them most days here but Tuesday is the big one). We have Backgammon, Chess, Go, Labyrinth, Scrabble, Abalone, Mancala, Shut-the-box, Cards, Cribbage, Dice, Dominos, Darts and Pool (UK version) to name but a few and Jeanette runs whist and beetle drives too!
- Every Winter Wednesday evening we hold a Pub Quiz.
- Every Summer Wednesday evening we have a free guided 60 to 90 minute walk of 3 or 4 miles.
- Every Thursday afternoon we have a free guided 90 minute walk of 4 miles or so.
- Every Thursday evening we open our doors to folks who wish to come and sing or play acoustic and unplugged music. More information here .
- Every Friday we have a pub sing-a-long with Roger Hampson.
- Every Saturday we have free guided morning walks and occasional evening events like our cheese, cider and ale nights, apple pressings, Morris Dancing and many other events.
- Every Sunday afternoon trad jazz with Mad Ed's Hot Five and monthly folk in the evening.
- We run free guided walks, click here for what's on and here for web links.
- If you like walking but don't need the company then our award winning walk leaflet is for you.
- Cyclists are always welcome, click here for what's on and here for web links.
- Web links for maps to find us by car or public transport, travel and weather information or print a map here .
- Children & Dogs - OK, but they must be well behaved, not free-ranging and with responsible adults! We like the old saying 'seen and not heard!'
- Welsh water is available in plastic bottles for walkers & cyclists and we can provide a free refill too.
- We have paper and glass recycling facilities here in the car park.
- Local notices, community projects and services can be posted on the Halkyn notice board located in the car park
- You can post your community projects and services in electronic format here too!
- Even more stuff about us here.
We win awards too!
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We have scored a rare double this year in 2008 by being awarded the local CAMRA Pub of the Year 2008 and CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2008!
We've been awarded a runner-up prize in the Evening Leader Pub of the Year 2008 competition!
We were awarded the Regional CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2007 covering Angelsey, all of North Wales, Cheshire & Merseyside.
For our local CAMRA branch we were the Cider Pub of the Year for 2007 and runner-up Pub of the Year in 2006 & 2007.
We've been nominated for the National Cider Pub of the Year in 2006, 7 and 8.
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