| Country: | Wales |
| Official Name: | Cadole |
| Coordinates: | 53.1564°N -3.1907°W |
| Os Grid Reference: | SJ204628 |
| Unitary Wales: | Flintshire |
| Lieutenancy Wales: | Clwyd |
| Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Delyn |
| Constituency Westminster: | Delyn |
| Post Town: | MOLD |
| Postcode District: | CH7 |
| Postcode Area: | CH |
| Dial Code: | 01352 |
| Static Image: | A494 at Cadole (geograph 1987723).jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | A494 at Cadole |
| Community Wales: | Gwernymynydd and Cadole[1] |
Cadole is a village in Flintshire, Wales. It lies west of Gwernymynydd and Mold (Yr Wyddgrug), south of Gwernaffield and to the east of the Clwydian Range, part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The name appears as Cat-hole, Cat Hole and Cathole on eighteenth century maps, and the village was still known by this name in living memory. The Place-Names of Flintshire states that the name was deliberately changed to its modern spelling following the gentrification of the area, so that the name could be derived from the Welsh place name elements 'Cae' (field) and 'Dôl' (meadow). One reason often given for this deliberate change was that English incomers found the name Cat-hole (or its English homographs) to be unseemly.[2]
Just across the Denbighshire boundary from Cadole, and next to the A494, is cy|Carreg Carn March Arthur|the Stone of Arthur's Horse's Hoof, a boundary marker consisting of a stone arch over an irregularly shaped rock. A plaque on the arch reads:
This monument features in a 1796 watercolour by John Ingleby.