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Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Urban District was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the Montgomery district of Powys on 1 April 1974. A new community was created covering the former urban district, with its council taking the name Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council, also known as Newtown Town Council. [ 12 ]
At the same time a community was established covering the area of the former urban district, with its council taking the name Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council. [21] Further local government reorganisation took place across Wales in 1996, when Montgomeryshire District Council was abolished and its functions passed to Powys County Council.
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Tregynon is a small village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales, to the north of Newtown and south west of Welshpool. The population of the community was 892 at the 2011 Census. [ 1 ] It rests on the B4389 road which runs from Bettws Cedewain to New Mills .
The Cambrian Mills was a complex of woollen mill buildings in Newtown, Powys, Wales, that operated from 1856 to 1912, when they were destroyed by fire. At one time the mill complex was the largest woollen daddy in Wales. The mills owed their success to the pioneering mail order business of the local Newtown draper Pryce Pryce-Jones. In the ...
Newtown was the last major station before Moat Lane Junction where the Mid-Wales Railway, to Llanidloes, Rhayader, Builth Road and on to Cardiff (with a branch to Brecon), diverged from the Cambrian Railways main line (today's Cambrian Line) to Machynlleth and Aberystwyth.
The ward elected two councillors to Montgomeryshire District Council [2] and Powys County Council, but since the May 1999 election it elected one county councillor to Powys County Council. [3] Newtown Central is a community ward and is represented by three town councillors on Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council. [4]
Newtown (Powys) Y Drenewydd: 1861 Powys: Transport for Wales: 185,000 185,000 Ninian Park Parc Ninian: 1987 Cardiff: Transport for Wales: 127,000 135,000 North Llanrwst Gogledd Llanrwst: 1863 [8] Conwy: Transport for Wales: 1,900 2,600 Pantyffynnon: 1835 [6] Carmarthenshire: Transport for Wales: 3,300 3,600 Pembrey & Burry Port Pen-bre a Phorth ...