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ID: 7008549 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008549			Record Type: administrative

Flint (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 16 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 53.2667 decimal degrees
Long: 003 10 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -3.1667 decimal degrees

Note: Located on rocky site beside Dee Estuary on coastal route into North Wales; Edward I built castle here in his conquest of Wales; town in bastide grid plan grew up around castle, & castle was destroyed in 1647; has been coal-mining center in 20th cen.

Names:

Flint (preferred,C,V,English,U)

Y Fflint (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Europe (continent) (P)

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United Kingdom (nation) (P)

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Wales (country) (P)

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Flintshire (unitary authority) (P)

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Flint (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	castle was built on the site in 1277, walled borough chartered in 1284
town (C)
mining center (C)
manufacturing center (C)	............	especially for rayon
river port (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Flint..........	[BHA, VP Preferred]
..............	Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..............	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 67

Y Fflint..........	[VP]
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 835

Subject: .....	[BHA, VP]
..................	Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 835
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2596315
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 67


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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