Flintshire
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| Image:WalesFlintshire.png | |
| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water | Ranked 12th 438 km² ? % |
|---|---|
| Admin HQ | Mold |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-FLN |
| ONS code | 00NJ |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density | Ranked 6th 150,100 Ranked 11th 343 / km² |
| Ethnicity | 97.8% White 1.0% South Asian |
| Welsh language - Any skills | Ranked 12th 21.4% |
| Politics | |
| Flintshire County Council Image:Arms-flintshire.jpg http://www.flintshire.gov.uk/ | |
| Control | Labour |
| MPs | |
| AMs |
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| MEPs | Wales |
Flintshire (Welsh: Sir y Fflint) is a principal area and county in north-east Wales. It borders Cheshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham. It is named for the historic county of Flintshire, which had notably different borders.
The principal area is governed by the Flintshire County Council.
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[edit] History
The current administrative area of Flintshire (a unitary authority) came into existence in 1996, when the former administrative county of Clwyd was split into three smaller areas. The principal area was formed by the merger of the Alyn and Deeside and Delyn districts. In terms of pre-1974 divisions, the area comprises
- the former borough of Flint
- the urban districts of Buckley, Connah's Quay, Holywell, Mold
- the rural district of Holywell Rural District
- all of Hawarden Rural District except the parish of Marford and Hosley
The district of Rhuddlan, which was also formed entirely from the administrative county of Flintshire was included in the new Denbighshire instead. Other parts of the pre-1974 administrative Flintshire to be excluded from the principal area are the Maelor Rural District and the parish of Marford and Hoseley, which became part of the Wrexham Maelor district in 1974 and are now part of the Wrexham county borough.
[edit] Original Records
1301-1413 Chester Recognizance Rolls The county of Cheshire had palatine status, being in some measure independent of the rest of England: moreover, from the Statute of Wales of 1284, after king Edward I's subjugation of North Wales, until the union of England and Wales in 1536 to 1543, much of the administration of North Wales (county Flint in particular) was directed from Chester. When the Chester Recognizance Rolls were moved from Chester to the Public Record Office, they were placed among the Welsh Records. These rolls, so called because they do include recognizances (of debts &c.) among their contents, are in fact the Chancery Rolls of the palatinate, containing enrolments of charters, letters patent, commissions and other documents issued under the seal of the palatinate. Deeds and other evidences of a private nature were also enrolled on them. A calendar of the Recognizance Rolls from their commencement to the end of the reign of Henry IV was prepared by Peter Turner and included in the 36th Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in 1875. Turner also looked through the rolls from the reigns of queen Elizabeth and king James I, and copied into this calendar abstracts of enrolments of early deeds (many undated) of the 13th century (with some later items).
[edit] Geography
- See List of places in Flintshire for a list of towns and villages.
Flintshire borders Wrexham, Denbighshire, and the English counties of Merseyside (across the River Dee) and Cheshire.
[edit] Schools
Top performing secondary schools in Flintshire, 5 GCSEs, grades A-C, 2007
67% Alun School, Mold
70% Argoed High School, Mold
67% Hawarden High School, Hawarden
60% Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold (Welsh)
70% Castell Alun High School, Hope
68% St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint
51% Connahs Quay HS, Connahs Quay
48% Elfed High School, Buckley
42% Holywell High Sch, Holywell
42% Saint Davids Sec School, Queensferry
34% Flint High School, Flint
25% John Summers High Sch, Queensferry
[edit] Industry
Parts of Flintshire have major manufacturing industries. Amongst these are a Toyota plant that manufactures engines, a Corus Group steelworks, Shotton Paper, but most importantly Airbus makes the wings for the A330 and the A380 at Broughton.
There are daily flights of the Airbus Beluga transport aircraft of Airbus wings from Broughton for the smaller aircraft. The wings for the A380, which are too large to be transported by air use a multi-modal transport using Flintshire's roads, the River Dee and the port of Mostyn, also in Flintshire. The motto of Airbus in Flintshire is: "Without us, it's just a bus"; meaning that the parts that make Airbus aircraft fly, rather than just run along the ground, are made in Flintshire.
[edit] Fairtrade
On November 19, 2004, Flintshire was granted Fairtrade County status.
[edit] Education
Flintshire Local Education Authority manages 75 primary schools, 3 special schools and 12 high schools.
[edit] External links
- Flintshire archaeological information
- [1] Chester Recognizance Rolls calendar surname-indexed with scans
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