Flintshire
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| Geography | |
| Aurie - Total - % Water |
Rankit 12t 438 km² ? % |
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| Admin HQ | Mold |
| ONS code | 00NJ |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2010 est.) - Densitie |
Rankit 6th 149,700 Rankit 11th 342 / km² |
| Ethnicity | 97.8% White 1.0% Sooth Asie |
| Welsh leid - Ony skills |
Rankit 12t 21.4% |
| Politics | |
| Flintshire County Council http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/ |
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| Control | TBA (council NOC) |
| MPs | |
| AMs |
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| MEPs | Wales |
Flintshire (Welsh: Sir y Fflint) is a coonty in north-east Wales. It is namit efter the historic coonty o Flintshire, which haed notably different borders. The coonty is govrened bi Flintshire County Council.
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History [edit]
The current admeenistrative aurie o Flintshire (a unitary authority) came intae existence in 1996, when the umwhile admeenistrative coonty o Clwyd wis split intae three smawer auries. The principal aurie wis formit bi the merger o the Alyn and Deeside an Delyn destricts. In terms o pre-1974 divisions, the aurie comprises
- the umwhile burgh o Flint
- the urban destricts o Buckley, Connah's Quay, Holywell, Mold
- the rural destrict o Holywell Rural District
- aw o Hawarden Rural District except the parish o Marford an Hosley
The destrict o Rhuddlan, which wis formit entirely frae the admeenistrative coonty o Flintshire wis includit in the new Denbighshire insteid an aw. Ither pairts o the pre-1974 admeenistrative Flintshire tae be excludit frae the principal aurie are the Maelor Rural Destrict an the parish o Marford an Hoseley, which became pairt o the Wrexham Maelor destrict in 1974 an are nou pairt o Wrexham Coonty Burgh.
Geography [edit]
- See Leet o places in Flintshire for a leet o touns an veelages.
Flintshire borders Denbighshire, Wrexham an the Inglis coonty o Cheshire.
Industry [edit]
Pairts o Flintshire hae major manufacturin industries. Amangst these are a vera advancit Toyota plant that manufacturs ingines, a TATA steelwirks an Shotton Paper, an Airbus, makkin the wings for the A330 an the A380 at Broughton.
There are daily flichts of the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft o Airbus wings frae Broughton for the smawer aircraft. The wings for the A380, which are too lairge tae be transportit bi air uise a multi-modal transport uisin Flintshire's roads, the River Dee an the port o Mostyn, in Flintshire an aw.
Flintshire is kent for its internet companies an aw, the lairgest an matst well kent being Moneysupermarket.com based in Ewloe.
Fairtrade [edit]
On 19 November 2004, Flintshire wis grantit Fairtrade Coonty status.
Education [edit]
Flintshire Local Education Authority manages 75 primary schuils, 3 special schuils an 12 heich schuils.
See an aw [edit]
Freemit airtins [edit]
- Flintshire at the Open Directory Project
- Flintshire airchaeological information
- Chester Recognizance Rolls calendar surname-indexed wi scans
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