Abstract
The two north-eastern counties of Wales, Denbigh and Flint, were combined to form the new county of Clwyd in 1974. The county also includes the upper reaches of the Dee valley and part of the mountain area of the Berwyns, previously in Merioneth, while a part of Denbigh east of the Vale of Conwy, became part of Gwynedd. Clwyd is the border county—its eastern boundary on the shore of the Dee and the fringe of Chester in the north, and on the Cheshire/Salop boundary in the south. Facing the Irish Sea the coastline runs west from the Dee to Colwyn Bay and its western boundaries are on the edge of Snowdonia.
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Bax, A., Fairfield, S. (1978). Clwyd. In: The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978–79. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81511-1_47
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