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John James Hughes (1814 – 17 June 1889) [1] was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk.The village was originally named Yuzovka (Hughesovka, Russian: Юзoвка) or Yuzivka (Ukrainian: Юзівка) after Hughes, ("Yu z" being a Russian and Ukrainian approximation of Hughes), formally becoming a town in May 1917 and later, in 1924, being renamed to Stalino ...
The parish of Merthyr Tydfil was made a local board district in 1850, which became an urban district in 1894. [57] The urban district was made a municipal borough in 1905, with eight electoral wards. Merthyr Tydfil was granted county borough status in 1908, making it independent from Glamorgan County Council. [58]
Town is an electoral ward which elects four councillors to Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council.At the May 2017 elections Town elected three Independent councillors (John Thomas, Kevin O'Neill, Andrew Barry) topped the poll, with the fourth councillor from the Labour Party (Dai Jones). [3]
From 1974 until 1996, Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council was a lower-tier district council, with Mid Glamorgan County Council providing county-level services in the area. Since the abolition of Mid Glamorgan County Council in 1996, Merthyr Tydfil has again been a county borough. [4] [5]
Merthyr Vale (Welsh: Ynysowen or Ynyswen) is a linear village and community in the Welsh county borough of Merthyr Tydfil. Lying on the A4054 road it is on the east bank of the River Taff . The community includes the villages of Aberfan on the opposite side of the Taff, Mount Pleasant and the village of Merthyr Vale itself.
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Location of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, 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 recommended to ...
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough is located in the historic county of Glamorgan in Wales and takes its name from its largest town. The county borough covers an area of 111 km 2 (43 sq mi) [1] and had a population of approximately 58,900 in 2021. [2] There are ten structures on the list of twelve Grade II* listed buildings in Merthyr Tydfil.