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In Wales, as in England and Northern Ireland, a town is any settlement which has received a charter of incorporation, more commonly known as a town charter, approved by the monarch [citation needed]. Fifty-five boroughs in Wales were given parliamentary representation in 1536, but the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 recognised only 20 Welsh ...
The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (named after the then larger Gwynedd county) was the first site designated exclusively within Wales and alongside the other six sites in the United Kingdom first designated in 1986. [3] Whereas the Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales is Wales's newest site designated on 28 July 2021. [4]
The vast majority of place names in Wales are Welsh by origin, containing elements such as Llan-, Aber-, Pen- etc. Along the south coast of Wales, where English has historically been more widely spoken, many place names are commonly anglicized, such as Pontypool, derived from Pont-y-Pŵl.
List of places in Carmarthenshire; List of places in Carmarthenshire (categorised) List of places in Ceredigion; List of places along the Wales Coast Path; List of places in Conwy County Borough; List of places in Conwy County Borough (categorised) List of county exclaves in England and Wales 1844–1974; List of places on the Creuddyn peninsula
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This is a list of the historic counties of Wales as recorded by the 1891 census, ordered by their area. Rank County Area 1: Carmarthenshire: 587,816 (2,378 km 2) 2:
List of places in Caerphilly County Borough; List of places in Cardiff - for villages and districts see Category:Populated places in Cardiff. List of places in Carmarthenshire; List of places in Carmarthenshire (categorised) List of places in Ceredigion; List of places in Conwy County Borough; List of places in Conwy County Borough (categorised)
Location of the County Borough of the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in the Vale of Glamorgan, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also ...