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English: Map of the community of Mold in Flintshire as of March 2024, using October 2023 data. This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: 2024 Wales Flintshire Community map.svg (by DankJae ).
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.
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.
County borough Barry: Pembrokeshire: Sir Benfro 1996 [a] 124,367 77 200 1,618 625 County Haverfordwest: Gwynedd [d] 1974 [e] 117,591 46 120 2,535 979 County Caernarfon: Conwy [f] 1996 114,290 102 260 1,126 435 County borough Conwy: Denbighshire: Sir Ddinbych 1996 [b] 96,558 115 300 837 323 County Ruthin: Monmouthshire: Sir Fynwy 1996 [b] 93,886 ...
The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
Map of North Wales; common modern day definition in dark red, historical definition in dark red and light red (Montgomeryshire). Map of South Wales, defined either by combining South East and South West Wales (dark red); or the historic definition (dark red and light red); there are other definitions.
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island.They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
The counties of Wales may refer to: Some principal areas of Wales; of the twenty-two, eleven are styled as "counties" Preserved counties of Wales, used for ceremonial purposes; Former administrative counties of Wales (those prior to 1996) — see History of local government in Wales; Historic counties of Wales; Maps: