Flintshire

Wikipedia Image: Flintshire Historic County Map

Flint Castle 1835 by JMW Turner. Under licence courtesy of National Museum of Wales

Flintshire is a coastal county in North East Wales.

Major towns: Flint, Mold, Connah's Quay,

Industry: Agriculture, coal mining, iron and steel

The county of Flintshire was abolished in the controversial re-organisation of 1974, and was absorbed into the newly created county of Clwyd. Ironically, the county of Clwyd was itself abolished on 31st March 1996, after a brief existence of twenty-two years.

At the same time, four new "unitary" authorities were created. These were given the names: Flintshire, Wrexham County Borough, Denbighshire, and Conwy County Borough.

N.B. Most people - and many computerised databases - assume Wrexham is now in Flintshire, because the new Denbighshire is not where the old one was.

For information about Wrexham you should look at Denbighshire.

Connah's Quay is the largest town in Flintshire, North Wales, lying on the River Dee.

Former Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone lived at Harwarden Castle.

Link to the Licence for the use of the Turner painting above

Record Office

The Old Rectory,

Hawarden,

Flintshire.

• CH5 3NR

01244 532364

Register Offices

Flintshire
Llwynegrin Hall,
Mold,
Flintshire,
CH7 6NR
Tel:01352 703333
Email: registrars@flintshire.gov.uk
Cheques payable to The Superintendent Registrar.
On-line indexes - NorthWalesBMD

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Links

General

• Location of the principal printed sources for mining history.
• List of mines in 1896
• Halkyn and Derbyshire Miners
• Holywell Common and Halkyn Mountain historic landscape re mines
• Rootsweb links
• The slate industry
• The Clay Industry
• The Steel industry
• Shotton Steel works

OPC

Archives

• IGI Flintshire
• North Wales BMD
• GENUKI : Flintshire Genealogy

Family and Social History

• Clwyd FHS
• Genealogy & Family History in North Wales

Local History Society

• The Bagillt Heritage Society
• The Buckley Society

Maps and Photographs

• Photos of the Churches of North Wales
• Old photographs of Flintshire
• A study of the history of Flint through the ages with photographs.

Countywide Interest

• Ewlow castle.
• Flint castle
• Hawarden Castle.
• Rhuddlan Castle.

Specific Town/Village Interest

• Bangor on Dee / Bangor is y Coed
• Bagillt
• Buckley
• Connahs Quay
• Denbigh
• Hawarden
• Halkyn Mountain
• Holywell
• Llanasa Village
• Mold
• Prestatyn
• Rhyl
• Ruthin
• Shotton
• St. Asaph
• "Virtual Mold"

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