PEOPLE can benefit from a informative tour around a Flintshire village using just their mobile phones.

Hawarden is now home to the tour run by the History Points web project, which has created QR-code plaques and stickers for 1,600 places of interest across Wales.

All you need is a phone that supports QR scanning to scan the codes with your mobile to receive from History Point's website a concise history of the object of interest.

And the project has created QR codes for numerous interesting places in Hawarden.

The web pages are linked together to form a self-guided walking tour on the theme titled 'Hawarden Characters and Customs'.

The tour is a circuit, so you can start at any point and continue until you return to your starting point.

Locations included on the tour include the world renowned Gladstone Library, the award-winning Glynne Arms, Hawarden Records Office and former homes to important historical figures.

All of the information is also available on home computers via the HistoryPoints website, and each location is mapped, so hopefully that will encourage some people to visit Hawarden to see these interesting places for themselves.

An introduction to the tour can be found at http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=tours-in-flintshire

Rhodri Clark, editor of History Points, said: "We've had excellent support from various property owners/managers who have allowed us to display the QR codes on their property.

"We hope that people will enjoy and benefit from the information provided and that they can learn more about what is a fascinating village."