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Gwent is a preserved county and former local government county in southeast Wales. A county of Gwent was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 ; it was named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent .
The Gwent County History was a Welsh history project which created an encyclopaedic study of the historic county of Monmouthshire, known as Gwent between 1974 and 1996. The series was published by the University of Wales Press in five volumes between 2004 and 2013.
Gwent's existence as a separate kingdom again temporarily ended when Gruffydd ap Llywelyn won control of the area and Morgannŵg in 1055, so extending his rule over the whole of Wales. In 1056 Gruffyd ap Llywelyn campaigned from the vicinity of Monmouth with an army of Welsh, Saxons and Danes to defeat Ralph , Earl of Hereford , ravaging the ...
Blaenau Gwent 50,736 8,647 Nick Smith ‡ Richard Taylor ৳ 1 Caerphilly 63,166 6,833 Wayne David ‡ Jane Pratt † 2 Islwyn 55,423 5,464 Christopher Evans ‡ Gavin Chambers † 3 Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney This data is shown at list of Parliamentary constituencies in Mid Glamorgan: Monmouth 67,094 9,982 David Davies †
The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales were instructed by the National Assembly for Wales on 11 March 2002 to undertake a review of preserved county boundaries. In their final proposals the part of the local government area of Caerphilly which had been in Mid Glamorgan was to be part of Gwent and the part of the local government ...
Blaenau Gwent (/ ˌ b l aɪ n aɪ ˈ ɡ w ɛ n t /; Welsh: [ˈbləi.nai]) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales.It borders the unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly to the west and Powys to the north.
Gwent County Council (Welsh: Cyngor Sir Gwent) was the upper-tier local authority that governed the county of Gwent in South Wales from its creation in 1974 to its abolition in 1996. For most of its existence, the county council was based in Cwmbran .
Kingdom of Gwent, a post-Roman Welsh kingdom or principality which existed in various forms between about the 5th and 11th centuries, although the name continued in use later; Gwent (preserved county), a preserved county in Wales; Gwent (former administrative county), a Welsh local authority between 1974 and 1996 The operational area of Gwent ...