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The government of Elizabeth I had established royal representatives (Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, and Lords Lieutenant) in every county of Wales. Mold developed into the administrative centre for Flintshire. By the 1760s, the Quarter Sessions were based in the town; the county hall was established in 1833, and the county gaol in 1871.
Map of places in Flintshire compiled from this list See the list of places in Wales for places in other principal areas. This is a list of towns and villages in the principal area of Flintshire, Wales
Flintshire (Welsh: Sir y Fflint) 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.
In Wales, as in England and Northern Ireland, a town is any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch [citation needed]. Fifty-five boroughs in Wales were given parliamentary representation in 1536, but the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 recognised only 20 Welsh ...
County borough, city Newport: Flintshire: Sir y Fflint 1996 [b] 155,319 353 910 440 170 County Mold: Bridgend: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr 1996 146,136 583 1,510 251 97 County borough Bridgend: Neath Port Talbot [c] Castell-nedd Port Talbot 1996 142,158 322 830 441 170 County borough Port Talbot: Wrexham: Wrecsam 1996 135,394 269 700 504 195 County ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:52, 17 June 2023: 720 × 960 (407 KB): DankJae: correct locations of some, for example Rhyl is in Denbighshire not Conwy, and Holyhead is on Holy Island.
Wales has seven cities as of September 2022. Bangor is Wales' oldest cathedral city, [1] whereas St Davids is the smallest city in the United Kingdom. [1] Cardiff is the capital city of Wales and its most-populous, followed by Swansea the second most-populous.
[11] [12] Liverpool is sometimes described as the "Capital of North Wales", as its the largest city closest to North Wales. [13] Historical maps divide North and South Wales using the boundaries between Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, and between Cardiganshire and Merionethshire, but the modern-day divide is described as ambiguous or arbitrary ...