Flint

• A short history of the Flint & Denbigh Hunt. London: Published and produced for The Flint and Denbigh Hunt by Reid-Hamilton, [1953]
• An early Flint deed Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol.11 1925 Welsh Journals Online
• Burgess, John. Denbigh and Flint Carlisle : John Burgess, 2000.
• Courtaulds and the Flint connection : Country Quest 29/1-2 (1988), p. 26
• Crasters, O E The supposed outer ditch of Flint Castle Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 22 1965/6 Welsh Journals Online
• Davies, Huw Powell Fflam y ffydd yn y Flint Cristion. Rhif 142/143 (Haf 2007), p. 14-15
• Edwards, J Goronwy Prof. The building of Flint Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol.12 1951 Welsh Journals Online
• Eisteddfod swydd y Flint : Chester : M. Galway, pr., [1823]
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• Fawcett, William. The Flint and Denbigh Hunt London : The Hunts Association, 1936.
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• Flint Old Parish Church : Hel achau, 40 (1993), p. 8
• Flint excavation report [+ second report] Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol.10 1924 Welsh Journals Online
• Hannaford, H R. Flint Castle, Clwyd : Archaeology in Wales, Vol. 33 (1993), p. 30-33.
• Hurst, J G Early eighteenth-century pottery from Flint Castle Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol. 22 1965/6 Welsh Journals Online
• Jones, Arthur Petitions to King Edward I, by the Burgesses of Flint, 1295-1300 Flintshire Historical Society journal, Vol.9 1922 Welsh Journals Online
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• O'Leary, T.J. with Kevin Blockley and Chris Musson. Pentre Farm, Flint 1976-81 : Oxford : B.A.R., 1989.
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St. Mary's churchyard was closed in 1856, by an Order in Council, and a cemetery, complete with chapel, was opened off Northop Road, a short distance to the south-west (OS ref. SJ 242728). The first burial in the cemetery was on 18 November 1856.
Until 1900, this cemetery was to all intents and purposes the "remote" churchyard of St. Mary's parish church, all burials being recorded in St. Mary's burial register.
The cemetery was extended by two acres on Friday, 13th September 1889. The Bishop of St. Asaph officiated at the consecration service, which was conducted with considerable pomp and ceremony.
At the turn of the century, maintenance of the cemetery was handed over to the local authority.
In 1941, the local authority opened a second cemetery, in London Road (OS ref. SJ 233731). Both cemeteries are still in use, and are now administered by Flintshire County Council. The opening time for each cemetery is 8.00 a.m. until sunset.
The cemetery records, from 1890 to date (Northop Road), and 1941 to date (London Road), are held at the Flintshire County offices in Flint.
Researchers who wish to see the cemetery records must make a prior appointment, by contacting :

• Flintshire County Council,
  Housing and Community Services,
  Cemeteries Section,
  County Offices,
  Flint,
  Flintshire.
  CH6 5BD.

  Tel: 01352 703360
  Fax: 01352 703373

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 243730.
The earliest recorded reference to St. Mary's Church dates from the thirteenth century. The original church was on the plan of a parallelogram. It had a north aisle, a porch, and a small wooden steeple at its west end. By 1846, the condition of the church had deteriorated so badly that it was considered to be unsafe. Permission was granted to worship in the Town Hall. The church was completely demolished and a new building, designed by the architect Ambrose Poynter, was erected on the same site. At the time, a number of old coffin lids and inscribed slabs were discovered in the foundations. The new church was consecrated on 5th December 1848. It consists of a nave, with north and south aisles, a short chancel, and a north-west clock tower with an octagonal spire.
In 1992, the local authority initiated a programme of pedestrianisation in the area around the church. During this work, some 60 memorials, mainly of the flat slab type, were discovered, many with most interesting inscriptions.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the church.

Flint Church, s.e on the People's Collection Wales site

There are also two district churches - St. David, Oakenholt, which was opened in 1872; and St. Thomas, Flint Mountain, which was opened in 1875.

Nonconformist Churches

"Welsh Church Commission - County of Flint - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civil parish of Flint :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Flint area are held at the Public Record Office, Kew.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at LDS Family History Centres; and at the Flintshire Record Office and the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  They have also been incorporated into the I.G.I., as part of an "official extraction" programme :

• The following nonconformist registers for the Flint area are held at the Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden.
  They have not been filmed; and they have not been incorporated into the I.G.I. :

When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Flint was assigned to the No. 3 ("Flint") sub-district of the Holywell Registration District, which was co-extensive with the Holywell poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes, entries for Flint are found under:

• Years 1837 - 1851: Holywell XXVII. nnn
• Years 1852 - 1946: Holywell 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance in local register offices)

Flint Castle - on castle wales

Journey to the past - Flint

Various landscapes on the People's Collection Wales site

• Geograph
• Flickr

The transcription of the section for this place from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Flint to another place.

Material on the People's Collection Wales site

• View from road into town [Flint], woman carrying jug on her head 
• Church Street, Flint c1913 
• Horse Mail, Ruthin to Flint. Last Run on August 31st 1913

"North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

Map of Flint parish in the County of Flint on the People's Collection Wales site

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ245716 (Lat/Lon: 53.247711, -3.134444), Flint which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Newspaper extracts

• In 1831- the population was 2216.
• In 1901- the population was 4630.
  [ Royal Commission on the Welsh Church - October 1907]