10 Facts About Flintshire

Flintshire is a county in the north-east of Wales.

Flintshire takes its name from the historic county of Flintshire, which formed an administrative county between 1889 until 1974 when it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972.

At the time of the Roman invasion, the area of present-day Flintshire was inhabited by the Deceangli, one of the Celtic tribes in ancient Britain, with the Cornovii to the east and the Ordovices to the west.

Current administrative area of Flintshire came into existence in 1996, when the former administrative county of Clwyd was split into three smaller areas.

Flintshire is a maritime county bounded to the north by the Dee estuary, to the east by Cheshire, to the west by Denbighshire and to the south by Wrexham County Borough.

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Flintshire is known for its internet companies, the largest and most well known being Moneysupermarket.

Flintshire included much of the North Wales Coalfield, with the last colliery at Point of Ayr closing in 1996.

Flintshire is home to Shotwick Solar Park, currently the largest photovoltaic solar array in the UK.

Flintshire was home to a thriving steel industry with many of the local communities and homes being built around this sector.

Flintshire has been traditionally a Labour Party stronghold, but in the 2019 general election, the Welsh Conservatives won the Delyn constituency.