Flintshire

[ flint-sheer, -sher ]

noun

1. a county in northeastern Wales. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).

Flintshire

/ -ʃə; ˈflɪntˌʃɪə /

noun

1. a county of NE Wales, on the Irish Sea and the Dee estuary: became part of Clwyd in 1974, reinstated with reduced borders in 1996: includes the industrialized Deeside region in the E and the Clwydian Hills in the SW. Administrative centre: Mold. Pop: 149 400 (2003 est). Area: 437 sq km (169 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Henry of Essex's act of cowardice took place in 1157, during an expedition into Flintshire, when the Welsh made a sudden attack.

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Let us now journey westward from the Dee into Wales, coming first into Flintshire.

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Holywell, a town in Flintshire, with a large cotton-weaving industry, had not been free from a bad kind of typhus for two years.

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Nicholas Lloyd, an eminent divine, and philological writer, was born in Flintshire in 1634.

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The living of Llanarmon he subsequently exchanged for the rectory of Halkin, Flintshire, where he died in 1819.

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