Until 1974, Flintshire, also known as the County of Flint, was an administrative county in the north-east of Wales, later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.
County Hall, Mold
Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844
The Counties Act 1844, which came into effect on 20 October 1844, was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which eliminated many outliers or exclaves of counties in England and Wales for civil purposes. The changes were based on recommendations by a boundary commission, headed by the surveyor Thomas Drummond and summarized in a schedule attached to the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832. This also listed a few examples of civil parishes divided by county boundaries, most of which were dealt with by later legislation.
Exclaves abolished by Act, l. to r: Minety Gloucs (with counter-exclave around church), Poulton Wilts, Broughton Poggs Oxon, Inglesham Wilts (small, s. of Lechlade), Little Faringdon and Langford Berks, Shilton Berks, Widford Gloucs. (Historic County Borders Project)
Exclaves of Northamptonshire missed by the Act, also shows Swineshead exclave of Huntingdonshire. (Historic County Borders Project)
Exclaves of Shillington, Bedfordshire, in Hertfordshire. (Historic County Borders Project)
Shalbourne salient of Berkshire, briefly in Wiltshire 1844 (Historic County Borders Project)
