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The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.
1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957) 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990) 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928) [27] 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
South Wales (Welsh: De Cymru [ˌdeː ˌkəmri]) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire , south Wales extends westwards to include Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire .
Map of North Wales; common modern day definition in dark red, historical definition in dark red and light red (Montgomeryshire). Map of South Wales, defined either by combining South East and South West Wales (dark red); or the historic definition (dark red and light red); there are other definitions.
In the 1536 acts of the Union, a Court of Great Sessions in Wales was created in Wales for four separate circuits. The circuits each had 3 counties involved. Some of the original territorial Marcher lordships were split into regional circuits and others were created from regions of the former Principality of Wales: [6] Anglesey, Caernarfon ...
12 March – Britain annexes Walvis Bay in South Africa. [1] 14 March – former Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas dies in exile in Southampton. [1] 15 March – English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77: the first Test cricket match takes place between England and Australia. [2]
English: Map of the undefined region of South Wales, following the borders of the common definitions of South East Wales and South West Wales. Ceredigion, Breconshire and Radnorshire (latter two are part of Powys) are shaded in a lighter tone as they are sometimes considered Mid Wales, but historically defined as South Wales.
The South Wales Valleys contain a large proportion of the Welsh population and remain an important centre of Welsh culture, despite the growing economic dominance of Cardiff. The UK Parliament's first Labour Party MP , Keir Hardie , was elected from the area, and the Valleys remain a stronghold of Labour Party power.