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South Pembrokeshire: Neyland Urban District: 1 Oct 1900: 31 Mar 1974: Created from part of Pembroke Rural District. Preseli: Pembroke Municipal Borough: 1 Apr 1889: 31 Mar 1974: Predated creation of county council. South Pembrokeshire: Pembroke Rural District: 28 Dec 1894: 31 Mar 1974: Created from Pembroke Rural Sanitary District. South ...
The county borough and its council were created on 1 April 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.The borough covered the combined area of the two former districts of Port Talbot and Neath, as well as a smaller area from Lliw Valley (the majority of which went to Swansea).
Narberth (Welsh: Arberth) is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was founded around a Welsh court and later became a Norman stronghold on the Landsker Line. It became the headquarters of the hundred of Narberth. It was once a marcher borough. George Owen described it in 1603 as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay".
Dyfed-Powys Police (Welsh: Heddlu Dyfed-Powys; DPP) is the territorial police force in Wales policing Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire (which make up the former administrative area of Dyfed) and the unitary authority of Powys (covering Brecknockshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire).
Lampeter (/ ˈ l æ m p ə t ər /; Welsh: Llanbedr Pont Steffan (formal); Llambed ()) is a town, community and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales, at the confluence of the Afon Dulas with the River Teifi.
Neath Port Talbot (Welsh: Castell-nedd Port Talbot) is a county borough in the south-west of Wales.Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe.The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhondda Cynon Taf to the east, Powys and Carmarthenshire to the north; and Swansea to the west.
Pembrokeshire College is a further education college with a campus in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, in Wales. [ 3 ] The College provides full-time vocational education and A-level programmes for students aged 14–19 and a variety of part-time and full time courses for adult learners and employers.
Powys (/ ˈ p oʊ ɪ s, ˈ p aʊ ɪ s / POH-iss, POW-iss, [4] Welsh:) is a county and preserved county in Wales. [a] It borders Gwynedd, Denbighshire, and Wrexham to the north; the English ceremonial counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire to the east; Monmouthshire, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and Neath Port Talbot to the south; and Carmarthenshire and ...