a parliamentary borough and market-town of Wales, county of Flint, pleasantly situated in a fertile valley near the right bank of the Alen, 13 miles W. from Chester. The town is irregularly built, chiefly of brick. The principal buildings are,—the parish church, a large and handsome edifice of the fifteenth century, with an embattled tower, richly carved; and the county-hall, a fine building, which cost L3000. There are also places of worship belonging to the Methodists, Independents, and Baptists; national and other schools; a market-house, and a savings-bank. The parish contains extensive coal pits, and mines of lead and iron, as well as some manufactories of earthenware, bricks, and cotton. Bailey Hill, a little to the N. of the town, was in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries crowned by a fortress, which was the scene of many sanguinary fights between the English and Welsh during the border warfare. It was captured by the latter under Owen Gwynedd in 1146, was retaken by the English, some time after, but again came into the hands of the Welsh in 1201. In its churchyard is the humble grave of Richard Wilson, the celebrated landscape-painter. Mold combines with Caergwyll, Caerwyll, Flint, Holywell, Overton, Rhuddlan, and St Asaph, in returning a member to Parliament. Pop. (1851) 3432.