Dafydd's birth was commemorated by the unveiling of a plaque on the wall of the Upper Shippe Inn in the centre of the village on 25 July 2010; this was 770 years since the issue of his earliest surviving charter as prince.

Bagillt already had several quays on the banks of the River Dee, where fishing boats had moored for centuries.

The Chester and Holyhead Railway (now part of the North Wales Coast Line) officially opened on 1 May 1848.

In 1879 a working men's club and cocoa house was built on the High Street in the Pentre area by public subscription.

But the industrial age created problems: in 1848, the same year the railway opened, a book was published in London entitled Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the state of education in Wales.

It detailed the poverty and hard living of many people in Bagillt and the Flintshire coalfields in the 19th century:[7] In some of the collieries the men are paid every other Saturday, and do not return to their work till the following Tuesday or Wednesday.

In Bagillt and in the adjoining town of Flint the old Welsh custom of keeping a merry night (noswaith lawen) is still prevalent, and, being generally reserved for a Saturday, is protracted to the following Sunday, during which drinking never ceases.

They have low ideas of domestic comfort, living in small cottages dirty and ill-ventilated, and at night are crowded together in the same room, and sometimes in the same bed, without regard to age or sex.

The colliery nearest the town on the north side is named Hard Struggle from the difficulty experienced in obtaining water to get up steam.

In 1908 the tunnel was draining more than 1.7 million gallons of water per day through the drainage channel and into the river at Bagillt.

Before the Second World War many people left in search of work: some moved to cities like Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool while others went overseas to Canada and America.

[10] Bagillt and Greenfield remain areas where unemployment, social deprivation and child poverty are key issues.

A report in 2004/05 called Flintshire Childcare Sufficiency Assessment concluded that child care was needed to help parents.

The town's facilities include a community-run library, reopened in 2014 following closure by Flintshire County Council in 2011, a few local shops, pubs and parkland.

In the late 19th century, many Welsh families from NE Wales emigrated to the Chubut Valley in Patagonia, Argentina.

[17] The community is a single electoral ward on Flintshire County Council (called Bagillt), and elects two councillors to that body.