Community
The town centre contains many small businesses and national stores, serving not only the shopping needs of the people of the town itself, but also those of the surrounding villages within the town's natural catchment area. Part of the centre of the historic market town has been designated a conservation area.
The town contains a secondary school with over 500 pupils and a leisure centre, as well as four primary schools.
Holywell also has a local football team, Holywell Town who play in the Welsh Alliance League.
The old cottage hospital was located in Pen-y-Maes until it closed. A new hospital has been built near the football pitch of the local team.
Recently, larger stores, notably Tesco and Lidl have been built around the town centre.
Although Holywell does not have a cricket team carrying the name of the town a number of junior and senior cricketers from the area play for nearby village team Carmel & District Cricket Club whose ground is located a short distance from Holywell between the villages of Carmel and Lloc located just off the A55 expressway.
In 2007, a group of locals proposed a circular walk way, the "St Beuno's Circular Walk", joining all of the historical and religious locations of the town.
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