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The facility was established in a private house in 1868 [1] and, after a major fund-raining campaign for a new building, moved into expanded facilities in Llanfair Road in 1911. [2]
Such local boards became urban district councils under the Local Government Act 1894, and the Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Urban District Council went on to govern the town from 1894 until 1974. [20] In 1974 all urban districts were abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 , with most of Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Urban District Council's ...
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]
Llanllwchaiarn (Welsh: Llanllwchaearn; Welsh pronunciation: [ɬanɬuː′χaɨarn]) is a village on the outskirts of Newtown in Powys, Wales. It forms part of the community of Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn. Aberbechan Hall was a Tudor mansion in the eastern part of the parish demolished in 1870.
Pryce-Jones was born in Llanllwchaiarn, just outside Newtown, Montgomeryshire. [5] He left school at 12, [3] and was apprenticed to a local draper, John Davies; he took over Davies's business in 1856. In the same year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris of Newtown. Pryce-Jones started his own little shop selling drapery just off Broad Street.
It is a common misconception that the code for Cardiff is 02920, whereas in fact it is 029 followed by an eight-digit local number. [1] This is due to Cardiff previously having a longer code (0222 then 01222) with six-digit local numbers. From 2000, all of its local numbers (until 2005) had the additional 20 added to them, making them 8 digits ...
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]
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 .