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The borough of Brecknock was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.It covered the area of the administrative county of Brecknockshire, which was abolished at the same time, with the exceptions of Brynmawr and Llanelly, which were transferred to Gwent, and Penderyn and Vaynor, which were transferred to Mid Glamorgan.
The town of Brecknock or Brecon was declared the county town. [4] The county was divided into six hundreds in 1542: Builth, Crickhowell, Devynnock, Merthyr, Penkelly, and Talgarth. Brecknock was the only borough in the county. Other market towns were Builth, Crickhowell and Hay-on-Wye.
The borough was abolished in 1974, with its area instead becoming a community called Brecon within the larger Borough of Brecknock in the new county of Powys. The former borough council's functions therefore passed to Brecknock Borough Council, which was in turn abolished in 1996 and its functions passed to Powys County Council. [35] [36]
Borough of Brecknock; Brecknock Rural District; Brecknockshire Agricultural Society; 1985 Brecon and Radnor by-election; Brecon and Radnorshire (UK Parliament constituency) Breconshire (UK Parliament constituency) Brycheiniog; Brynmawr Experiment; Brynmawr Urban District; Builth Wells Urban District
Brecknock was a rural district in the administrative county of Breconshire, Wales, from 1894 - 1974. The district surrounded, but did not include, the town of Brecon, which was a separate municipal borough. In 1974 local government throughout Wales was reorganised.
The failure of the Brecon Liberals to sustain the momentum, at a subsequent by-election some months later when Brecknock was elevated to the Lords upon the death of his father, convinced Price of the necessity of concentrating on the extension of the franchise and the abolition of small boroughs such as Brecon which were so heavily influenced ...
Borough West Glamorgan: 50,971 acres (206.27 km 2) 66,150 66,300 Neath: Neath Port Talbot: GT1 Newport: Borough Gwent: 49,558 acres (200.55 km 2) 135,910 137,200 Newport: Newport: MG1 Ogwr: Borough Mid Glamorgan: 70,444 acres (285.08 km 2) 126,570 134,200 Bridgend: Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan: WG4 Afan, renamed Port Talbot on 1 January 1986 [4 ...
Builth Wells Urban District was abolished in 1974, with its area instead becoming a community called Builth Wells within the Borough of Brecknock in the new county of Powys. The former urban district council's functions therefore passed to Brecknock Borough Council, which was in turn abolished in 1996 and its functions passed to Powys County ...