Place:Cowbridge, Glamorgan, Wales

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NameCowbridge
Alt namesCowbridgesource: from redirect
TypeTown, Borough (municipal)
Coordinates51.461°N 3.448°W
Located inGlamorgan, Wales     ( - 1974)
Also located inSouth Glamorgan, Wales     (1974 - 1996)
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales     (1996 - )
See alsoCowbridge Hundred, Glamorgan, WalesHundred in which the parish was located
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Cowbridge is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately west of the centre of Cardiff.

The Cowbridge with Llanblethian community and civil parish elect a town council. A Cowbridge electoral ward exists for elections to the Vale of Glamorgan Council. This ward includes Cowbridge, Llanblethian and Llanfair.

The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 6,180.

Cowbridge was a municipal borough from 1835 until 1974. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

Research Tips

  • GENUKI on Glamorgan Lots of leads to other sources and descriptions of former parishes.
  • The FamilySearch Wiki on Glamorgan has recently been updated (early 2016) and looks remarkably like Wikipedia. Their map "Glamorgan Parish Map.jpg" enlarges to show all the original parishes. The sub-section "Parishes of Historic Glamorgan" lists all the parishes of Glamorgan and the newer preserved counties and principal areas in both English and Welsh. (Currently this website is still under construction.)

Maps

The first three maps are provided by A Vision of Britain through Time

These maps were found on Wikimedia Commons

These maps of Glamorgan post-1974 were found on another site and are very useful for sorting out the up-to-date geography of the area

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