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What does Flintshire mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A maritime traditional county bounded to the north by the Irish Sea, to the northeast by the Dee estuary, to the east by Cheshire and to the south and southwest by Denbighshire. A detached part, Maelor Saesneg, is bounded on the northwest by Denbighshire, on the northeast by Cheshire, and on the south by Shropshire. There is a further small detached part around Marford.
  2. A local government principal area. It borders Merseyside, Cheshire, Wrexham and Denbighshire.
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Holywell, a town in Flintshire, with a large cotton-weaving industry, had not been free from a bad kind of typhus for two years.
Being a younger son, he was apprenticed by his father, who was a respectable freeholder, to a tanner in Flintshire.
Of the 2000 operatives whose location is not given, about 1000 worked in Flintshire.
There is no disturbing renown to be got among the cabins of the Flintshire hills.
Following the death in 1907 of Romilly Allen, the Rev Rupert Morris, originally from Holywell in Flintshire took over the editorship.
Flintshire was created out of the lordships of Tegeingl, Hopedale, and Maelor Saesneg.

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