Flint

Flint, a parliamentary borough and seaport in the east of Flintshire, North Wales, on the left side of the estuary of the Dee, 13 miles by rail NW. of Chester. In the vicinity are very extensive alkali-works, besides copper-works, collieries, and lead-mines. Pop. (1851) 3296; (1891) 5247. It unites with Caergwrle, Caerwys, Holywell, Mold, Overton, Rhuddlan, and St Asaph in sending one member to parliament. Flint Castle, built by Edward I., captured by the parliament in 1643, and four years later dismantled, exists in a ruined condition. Here Richard II. surrendered to Bolingbroke, 19th August 1399. See Taylor's Notes on the History of Flint (1873).