Flintshire


Aurie - Total - % Water	Rankit 12t 438 km² ? %

Geography
Admin HQ	Mold
ONS code	00NJ
Demographics
Population: - Total (2021) - Densitie	Rankit Rankit / 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/
Control	TBA (council NOC)
MPs	David Hanson Mark Tami
AMs	Sandy Mewies Carl Sargeant (Constituency) North Wales (Regional)
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.

History[eedit | eedit soorce]

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[eedit | eedit soorce]

See Leet o places in Flintshire for a leet o touns an veelages.

Flintshire borders Denbighshire, Wrexham an the Inglis coonty o Cheshire.

Industry[eedit | eedit soorce]

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 weel kent being Moneysupermarket.com based in Ewloe.