๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Flintshire (Sir y Fflint) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It has a maritime border with Merseyside along the Dee Estuary to the north, and land borders with Cheshire to the east, Wrexham County Borough to the south, and Denbighshire to the west. Connah's Quay is the largest town, while Flintshire County Council is based in Mold.
The county covers 169 square miles (440ย kย mยฒ). After Connah's Quay the largest settlements are Flint, Buckley and Mold . The east of the county is industrialised and contains the Deeside conurbation, which extends into Cheshire. The adjacent coast is also home to industry, but further west has been developed for tourism, particularly at Talacre. Inland, the west of the county is sparsely populated and characterised by gentle hills, including part of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley AONB.
The county is named after the historic county of the same name, which was established by the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 and has notably different borders. The county is considered part of the Welsh Marches and formed part of the historic Earldom of Chester and Flint.
Transport: Rail Located on the North Wales Coast Line (Holyhead to Chester) with services run by Avanti West Coast and Transport for Wales specifically calling at Flintshire stations such as Flint and Shotton with an interchange at Shotton with the Borderlands Line, which links it and other Flintshire stations with the Liverpool area and Wrexham.
Economy: Industry Parts of Flintshire have major manufacturing industries. Amongst these are an advanced Toyota plant that manufactures engines, Eren Paper, and Airbus UK, making the wings for the A320, A330 and A350 aircraft at Broughton.
There are daily flights of the Airbus BelugaXL transport aircraft of Airbus wings from Broughton.
Flintshire is also known for its internet companies, the largest and most well known being Moneysupermarket.com based in Ewloe.
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. It was built in 2016 and covers 250 acres of the south western edge of the Wirral Peninsula near the village of Shotwick. It has a maximum generating capacity of 72.2 MW and is connected directly to the largest paper-mill in the UK, UPM Shotton Paper.
Flintshire was home to a thriving steel industry with many of the local communities and homes being built around this sector. Steelmaking came to an end in 1980 with the loss of 6500 on one day. The Shotton Steelworks site, now owned by Tata Steel, continues to produce coated steel products, mainly for the construction industry.
Fairtrade On 19 November 2004, Flintshire was granted Fairtrade County status.
Education Flintshire County Council is the Local Education Authority of Flintshire. It runs 72 primary schools, 2 special schools and 11 secondary schools. Six of the primary schools and one comprehensive are Welsh medium schools.
Four of the secondary schools have come together with Coleg Cambria to form the Deeside Consortium.
In December 2022, the Climate Change Committee met and Buckley Bistre West councillor Carolyn Preece recommended weekly vegan school meals in the local schools to combat climate change.
Media Flintshire's local newspapers include two daily titles, North Wales Daily Post and The Leader.
There are two radio stations broadcast in the area โ Communicorp station Heart North and Mid Wales and Global Radio station Capital North West and Wales broadcast from the studios based in Wrexham. Whilst BBC Cymru Wales runs a studio and newsroom for their radio, television and online services located at Glyndลตr University but does not base their broadcasting there.
An online news website covering the Flintshire area, Deeside.com, operates from Deeside.
The Flintshire District has a population of over 156,847 people. Flintshire is situated near Connah's Quay.
To set up a UBI Lab for Flintshire see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Flintshire has links with:
๐ฉ๐ช Menden, Germany๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Mold 53.171
๐ณ๐ฑ Midden-Groningen 53.183
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Chester 53.188
๐ณ๐ฑ Leeuwarden 53.203
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Sandbach 53.146
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Skegness 53.145
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Matlock 53.14
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Mansfield 53.133
๐ง๐พ Baranovichi 53.132
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Wallasey -3.117
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Taunton -3.1
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Connah's Quay -3.057
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Blackpool -3.05
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Abergavenny -3.017
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Cwmbran -3.015
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Mold -3.146
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Kirkcaldy -3.163
๐ช๐ธ Guadalajara -3.164
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Cardiff -3.167
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Leith -3.17
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Glenrothes -3.178
Locations Near: Flintshire -3.14226,53.1677
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Mold -3.146,53.171 d: 0.5
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Connah's Quay -3.057,53.218 d: 8
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Wrexham -2.993,53.046 d: 16.8
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Wallasey -3.117,53.4 d: 25.9
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Chester -2.894,53.188 d: 16.7
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Birkenhead -3.014,53.394 d: 26.5
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Ellesmere Port -2.902,53.278 d: 20.2
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Liverpool -2.992,53.407 d: 28.4
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Bootle -2.989,53.446 d: 32.5
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Knowsley -2.853,53.457 d: 37.4
Antipodal to: Flintshire 176.858,-53.168
๐ณ๐ฟ Dunedin 170.474,-45.884 d: 19084.1
๐ณ๐ฟ Christchurch 172.617,-43.517 d: 18897.6
๐ณ๐ฟ Invercargill 168.373,-46.413 d: 19049.4
๐ณ๐ฟ Canterbury 171.58,-43.543 d: 18876.8
๐ณ๐ฟ Queenstown 168.658,-45.033 d: 18932.8
๐ณ๐ฟ Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 18684.4
๐ณ๐ฟ Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18678.3
๐ณ๐ฟ Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 18678.3
๐ณ๐ฟ Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 18670.1