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see also Towns in Wales. Subcategories. This category has the following 24 subcategories, out of 24 total. A. Villages in Anglesey (21 C, 157 P) B. Villages in ...
List of towns in Wales; Welsh placenames; ... List of places in Cardiff - for villages and districts see Category: ... Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom;
This is a list of communities in Wales sorted by principal area. The 'community' is the lowest tier of local government in Wales, and is usually represented by a community council. A Welsh community is broadly equivalent to an English civil parish. In total, Wales is divided into 878 communities, of which about 768 (87%) are represented by ...
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 names of the principal areas, in both English and Welsh, are set out in the 1994 amended version of the 1972 act, under Schedule 4. Section 74 of the 1972 act allows principal councils to change their names, if there is a two-third majority support for such in a specially convened meeting.
List of places in Ireland. List of places in the Republic of Ireland; List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland as defined by the Central Statistics Office. Includes non-municipal towns and suburbs outside municipal boundaries List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland/2011 census; List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland/2006 census
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
The counties of Wales may refer to: Some principal areas of Wales; of the twenty-two, eleven are styled as "counties" Preserved counties of Wales, used for ceremonial purposes; Former administrative counties of Wales (those prior to 1996) — see History of local government in Wales; Historic counties of Wales; Maps: