Deciphering townships near Northup/Mold, Flintshire, N Wales from 1798 parish re

[Gadget]

Northop and Flint are adjacent parishes. I'm wondering if it is the area that might be a 'fluid' boundary. Flint mountain is in that area. It might be worth looking around there. 

Coming from just south of there, I can't recall flint Common ever being mentioned - though I was (nearly) a couple of centuries later 

[Gadget]

PS - I was referring to Flint as a parish/town rather than the county in my last posting. 

I see that there is a large stretch of land to the south of Holywell that is marked as Holywell common. Maybe earlier maps would show Flint Common.

[Jo Harding]

I have ancestors from this area and have found a great variety of places referred to as Flint ..... There are Flint Mountain, Flint Wood, Flint Common etc. It can be difficult to find where some of these are now. I did a field trip a few years ago and was none the wiser. Genuki has a page on Flint which has a link to an old map.

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Flint

Jo

[johneowens]

Thanks, Jo. I'll check out this url.

Best

John

[Gadget]

That's where I've been looking, Jo.I mentioned Flint Mountain in a previous post - #9

I think it might be worth contacting Clwyd FHS:

http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/resource-centre.htm

I'm not sure what the arrangements are for the Research  Centre in Cefn at the moment but a letter might get through.

[hanes teulu]

Have you tried Welshnewspapers on line? eg
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3853630/3852638/65/

see end column

plenty of hit for "flint common".

[hanes teulu]

One newspaper report describes it as " ... a mountainous district between Flint and Northop ...".

[johneowens]

PS - I was referring to Flint as a parish/town rather than the county in my last posting. 

I see that there is a large stretch of land to the south of Holywell that is marked as Holywell common. Maybe earlier maps would show Flint Common.

Thanks, Gadget. I'll check it out. However, if Flint Common is part of Flint, which has its own parish church I wonder why my baptisms listed above are registered at Northop, presumably, the Parish Church of St. Eurgain and St. Peter at Northop. Could be because the Flint church "had been profaned and severely vandalised in the Civil War", according to http://www.fflint.co.uk/church.html

Best

John

[Gadget]

That's Flint Mountain, Ht 

Just found a will of Jeremiah Thomley of Flint Common

https://viewer.library.wales/153380#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F153380%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=1188%2C994%2C713%2C747

PS - Flint Mountain might be on the map links previously given