The Hundreds of Cheshire , as with other Hundreds in England , were the geographic divisions of Cheshire for administrative, military and judicial purposes. They were introduced in Cheshire some time before the Norman conquest . Later on, both the number and names of the hundreds changed by processes of land being lost from Cheshire, and merging or amalgamation of remaining hundreds. The Ancient parishes of Cheshire were usually wholly within a specific hundred, although a few were divided between two hundreds.
31-583: The Deeside Consortium is a local arrangement in Flintshire , North Wales between four schools: The consortium exists to share 6th form education between the four schools. The schools are too small to provide good education in all the A-level courses on offer, so each school specialises. This Welsh school or sixth form college related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Flintshire Flintshire ( Welsh : Sir y Fflint )
62-472: A population of 155,000 in 2021. After Connah's Quay-Shotton (23,000) the largest settlements are Flint (13,736), Buckley (16,127) and Mold (10,123). The east of the county is industrialised and contains the Deeside conurbation, which extends into Cheshire and has a population of 53,568. The adjacent coast is also home to industry, but further west has been developed for tourism, particularly at Talacre . Inland,
93-410: A separate local authority remained in existence until 1974 when it was merged with those of Denbighshire and Edeyrnion Rural District to form the administrative county of Clwyd . Clwyd was abolished 22 years later and Flintshire reorganised in its present form in 1996. However, some parts of the historic country are not included within the present administrative boundaries: significantly English Maelor
124-566: Is a county in the north-east of Wales . It borders the English ceremonial counties of Merseyside and Cheshire , across the Dee Estuary to the north and by land to the east respectively, 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 (440 km ), with
155-634: 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 . The coast along the Dee estuary is heavily developed by industry and the north coast much developed for tourism . The Clwydian Range occupies much of the west of the county. The highest point is Moel Famau (1,820 feet/554 metres). Notable towns include Buckley , Connah's Quay , Flint , Hawarden , Holywell , Mold , Queensferry , and Shotton . The main rivers are
186-521: 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
217-829: The Dee (the estuary of which forms much of the coast), and the River Alyn . 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 . Parts of Flintshire have major manufacturing industries. Amongst these are an advanced Toyota plant that manufactures engines, Eren Paper , and Airbus UK , making
248-575: The Welsh Conservatives won the Delyn constituency. The Alyn and Deeside constituency is a historically and still is a Welsh Labour Party constituency, which is represented by Mark Tami . From 2024, Flintshire is covered by two UK parliament constituencies, Alyn and Deeside and Clwyd East , with Delyn being abolished. Both parliamentary seats are held by the Labour Party. The Senedd uses
279-600: The Domesday Survey. The land south of the River Mersey was made up of twelve hundreds : Atiscross, Bochelau, Chester, Dudestan, Exestan, Hamestan, Middlewich, Riseton, Roelau, Tunendune, Warmundestrou and Wilaveston, with the hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan being disputed with the Kingdom of Gwynedd . (There are slight variations between various sources in the spellings of these names.) The hundreds in between
310-558: The Domesday commissioners. Nevertheless, the two territories do seem to have been distinguished from one another in some way and it is not certain that the shire-moot and the reeves referred to in the south Lancashire section of Domesday were the Cheshire ones. The Domesday Survey (1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the Mersey, the name of which means 'boundary river',
341-486: The Dudestan hundred. Over the years the remaining ten hundreds consolidated to just seven with changed names: Broxton , Bucklow , Eddisbury , Macclesfield , Nantwich , Northwich and Wirral . The date at which this process happened is not clear: These newer names are reported to be all in use by 1259 to 1260. The same source reports research that has found Macclesfield Hundred to be named in 1242 and Eddisbury Hundred by
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#1732855183965372-500: The Mersey and the Ribble ( Inter Ripam et Mersam ) were: West Derby ("Derbei"), Newton ("Neweton"), Warrington ("Walingtune"), Salford , Blackburn ("Blacheburn") and Leyland ("Lailand"). This uncertain nature of the northern border lasted until 1182, when the land north of the Mersey became administered as part of the new county of Lancashire . Later, the hundreds of Atiscross and Exestan became firmly part of Wales , as did part of
403-577: The area comprises: The district of Rhuddlan , which was also formed entirely from the administrative county of Flintshire was included in the new Denbighshire instead. Other parts of the pre-1974 administrative Flintshire to be excluded from the principal area are the Maelor Rural District and the parish of Marford and Hoseley , which became part of the Wrexham Maelor district in 1974 and are now part of Wrexham County Borough . Flintshire
434-549: The area – 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 Glyndŵr University but does not base their broadcasting there. Local TV coverage is mainly served by BBC Wales and ITV Cymru Wales with BBC North West and ITV Granada can be also received. Television signals in
465-576: The boundaries of the Hundred of Atiscross as it existed at the time of the Domesday Book . Atiscross, along with the Hundred of Exestan , was transferred from the Earldom of Chester to the expanding Kingdom of Gwynedd from the west in the 13th century following numerous military campaigns. This region, as well as an exclave formed from part of the Hundred of Dudestan (known as Maelor Saesneg ), later formed
496-583: The county are received from the Moel-y-Parc transmitter which is situated close to Caerwys , Winter Hill transmitter can also be received as well as the Storeton relay transmitter which is transmitted from both transmitters. An online news website covering the Flintshire area, Deeside.com , operates from Deeside. Flintshire has been traditionally a Labour Party stronghold, but in the 2019 general election ,
527-418: The earlier Domesday hundred of Wilaveston. Certainly there were links between Cheshire and south Lancashire before 1000 AD, when Wulfric Spot held lands in both territories. Wulfric's estates remained grouped together after his death, when they were left to his brother Aelfhelm, and indeed there still seems to have been some kind of connection in 1086, when south Lancashire was surveyed together with Cheshire by
558-409: The following parishes: Bucklow was known to have been in existence at least as early as 1260. It was formed from the earlier Domesday hundreds of Bochelau and Tunendune. Eddisbury included the ancient parishes of: Macclesfield was known to have been in existence at least as early as 1242. It was formed to a great extent from the earlier Domesday hundred of Hamestan. Wirral was formed from
589-567: The historic county of Flintshire, which also formed an administrative county between 1889 until 1974 when it was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 . The re-establishment of a principal area in 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 does not share the same boundaries and covers a smaller area. At the time of the Roman invasion, the area of present-day Flintshire
620-513: The late 12th century. Chester lost its hundred status, but was subsequently given the status of "county of itself" and was known as the City and County of Chester. This hundred was mainly formed from the old Dudestan hundred. The southern part of Dudestan was transferred to Wales where it was known as Maelor Saesneg , and (later still) " Flintshire Detached" (see Ancient county of Flintshire .) Broxton hundred from time to time contained all or part of
651-573: 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. On 19 November 2004, Flintshire was granted Fairtrade County status. Flintshire County Council is the Local Education Authority of Flintshire. It runs 72 primary schools , 2 special schools and 11 secondary schools . Six of
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#1732855183965682-738: The main areas of Flintshire, established by the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 under Edward I . It was administered with the Palatinate of Chester and Flint by the Justiciar of Chester . The county was consolidated in 1536 by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 under the Tudor King Henry VIII , when it was incorporated into the Kingdom of England ; it included the detached exclave of Welsh Maelor . Flintshire as
713-427: The old set of Alyn and Deeside, and Delyn. See Category:People from Flintshire Flintshire has one formal twinning arrangement with: Hundreds of Cheshire Cheshire, in the Domesday Book was recorded as a larger county than it is today. There is a small disagreement in published sources about where the northern boundary of Cheshire lay, and some parts of the border areas with Wales were disputed with
744-687: The predecessors of Wales. One source states that the northern border was the River Ribble , resulting in large parts of what was to become Lancashire being at that time part of Cheshire. This area is included as "Inter Ripam et Mersam" in the Domesday Book. However, more recent sources confirm that the actual boundary at that time was the River Mersey . The ancient parish of Whitchurch in Hodnet Hundred appears in both Cheshire and Shropshire rolls of
775-641: 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. Flintshire's local newspapers include two daily titles, North Wales Daily Post and The Leader . There are two radio stations broadcast in
806-560: The region had been divided into the Hundred of Englefield ( Welsh : Cantref Tegeingl ), derived from the Latin Deceangli. It became part of the Kingdom of Mercia by the 8th century AD, with much of the western boundary reinforced under Offa of Mercia after 752, but there is evidence that Offa's Dyke is probably a much earlier construction. By the time of the Norman conquest in 1066 it
837-564: 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 . Flintshire takes its name from
868-652: 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
899-531: Was incorporated into Wrexham County Borough, and St Asaph , Prestatyn and Rhyl into Denbighshire . The current administrative area of Flintshire (a unitary authority and Principal area ) came into existence in 1996 , when the former administrative counties in Wales were split into smaller areas. The principal area was formed by the merger of the Alyn and Deeside and Delyn districts. In terms of pre-1974 divisions,
930-641: 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. Lead and silver mine workings are evident in the area, with several sows of lead found bearing the name 'DECEANGI' inscribed in Roman epigraphy. The Deceangli appear to have surrendered to Roman rule with little resistance. Following Roman Britain, and the emergence of various petty kingdoms ,
961-557: Was under the control of Edwin of Tegeingl , from whose Lordship the Flintshire coat of arms is derived. Edwin's mother is believed to have been Ethelfleda or Aldgyth, daughter of Eadwine of Mercia. At the time of the establishment of the Earldom of Chester, which succeeded the Earl of Mercia, the region formed two of the then twelve Hundreds of Cheshire of which it remained a part for several hundred years. Flintshire today approximately resembles