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Flint Castle

Grade I listed castle in Flint, Wales
TouristAttraction castle Q1428846

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
castle, archaeological site[4]
Inception
1277[12]
Founder
Edward I of England[6]
Owned by
Edward I of England[8]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Official website
cadw.gov.wales[13]
Location
Flint[11]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 53.252°, -3.130°
Short name
Flint[18]
Architect
James of Saint George[5]
Described by source
CastlesFortsBattles[14]
Elevation above sea level
+5.7[19]
Heritage designation
Grade I listed building, scheduled monument, National Monuments of Wales[15][16][17]
Historic county
Flintshire[20]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Flint[2]
Maintained by
Cadw[7]
Operator
the Crown, Cadw[9][10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Castell y Fflint en Flint Castle en Flint Castle (Flint, Wales) -- Officials and employees cs Flint da Flint Slot de Castell Y Fflint fr château de Flint it Flint Castle it Castello di Flint ja フリント城 pt Castell y Fflint pt Castelo de Flint pt Flint Castle ru Замок Флинт tr Flint Kalesi zh 弗林特城堡
🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
252144782718613633089
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
YFflintLB04.JPG ↗
British Listed Buildings ID
300016403
Burgenwelt ID
grossbritannien/flint
Cadw Building ID
16403
Cadw Monument ID
FL003
Coflein ID
94448
Freebase ID
/m/0bs9h1
Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID
Welshsites/320
GeoNames ID
6286897
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1100265
Google Maps Customer ID
10026183516424491946
Show all 18 identifiers +6
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
368661
National Library of Wales Authority ID
flint-castle-flint-wales-history, flint-castle-flint-wales-officials-and-employees, flint-castle-wales
OpenStreetMap node ID
648864384
SNARC ID
Fonollosa
TripAdvisor ID
2556714
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Castle", "FlintCastle"]
📚 Sources · 1
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
castle, archaeological site
Operator 2
the Crown, Cadw
Architect 1
James of Saint George
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
CastlesFortsBattles
Founder 1
Edward I of England
Heritage designation 1
scheduled monument
Historic county 1
Flintshire
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Flint
Location 1
Flint
Maintained by 1
Cadw
Owned by 1
Edward I of England
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
Edward I of England
SNARC ID 1
Fonollosa
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Summary

Flint Castle is a castle[1].

Related Entities

CastlesFortsBattles Edward I of England United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . gatehouse-gazetteer.info. gatehouse-gazetteer.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Vicarage · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    Short name → {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Flint'}
    Operator → the Crown, Cadw
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Flint
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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