Flintshire
a county in northeastern Wales. 169 sq. mi. (438 sq. km).
- Also called Flint.
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How to use Flintshire in a sentence
Henry of Essex's act of cowardice took place in 1157, during an expedition into Flintshire, when the Welsh made a sudden attack.
Let us now journey westward from the Dee into Wales, coming first into Flintshire.
England, Picturesque and Descriptive | Joel CookHolywell, a town in Flintshire, with a large cotton-weaving industry, had not been free from a bad kind of typhus for two years.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles CreightonNicholas Lloyd, an eminent divine, and philological writer, was born in Flintshire in 1634.
The living of Llanarmon he subsequently exchanged for the rectory of Halkin, Flintshire, where he died in 1819.
British Dictionary definitions for Flintshire
/ (ˈflɪntˌʃɪə, -ʃə) /
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)
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