Flintshire
Welsh Sir y Fflint
Unitary authority in north Wales; population (1996) 144,000;
area 437 sq km/167 sq mi. The administrative centre is Mold. The
main rivers are the Dee and Alyn .There is an airport at Hawarden.
The soil is fertile, giving rise to dairy farming and stock-raising.
On the Dee estuary artificial silk, chemicals, and optical glass
are produced. Greenfield Valley was in the forefront of the Industrial
Revolution before the advent of steam, and now has a museum of
industrial archaeology.
Flintshire is bounded by the Irish Sea in the north, the Dee
estuary in the east, and the Clwydian Range, which rises to 555
m/1,820 ft, in the southwest. Other principal towns are Flint,
Holywell, Buckley, and Connah's Quay. A former county, it was
part of Clwyd between 1974 and 1996;
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