Historic Changes to Wales

1974 [29 October 2017]

• All places in Caernarfonshire moved to the counties of Gwynedd or Conwy.

• All places in Glamorgan moved to the new counties of Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan or West Glamorgan.

• Most of the places in Merioneth moved to form the district of Meirionnydd in Gwynedd while a few places made up the Glyndŵr district of Clwyd.

• Most of the places in Monmouthshire moved to form the county of Gwent. A few remaining places went to Mid Glamorgan and South Glamorgan.

• All places in Pembrokeshire moved to form the new districs of South Pembrokeshire and Preseli in Dyfed county

• Most places in Breconshire moved to Powys while a few places moved to Mid Glamorgan and Blaenau Gwent.

• All places in Montgomeryshire moved to Powys.

• All places in Radnorshire moved to Powys.

• All places in Place:Cardiganshire, Wales moved to Place:Ceredigion (principal area), Wales

1996 [29 October 2017]

• Most places in Mid Glamorgan moved into the unitary authorities of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff or part of Caerphilly. A few places went to Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff.

• All places in South Glamorgan moved to either Cardiff or Vale of Glamorgan.

• All places in West Glamorgan moved into Swansea or Neath Port Talbot.

• The places in the Glyndwr part of Clwyd now form part of the principal area of Denbighshire, with the rest remaining in Gwynedd.

• Gwent was abolished with places moving to the city of Newport, Blaenau Gwent county borough, Torfaen county borough, Caerphilly county borough (that part of which came from Mid Glamorgan) and Monmouthshire (the part of the historic county that now makes up the principal area with the same name).

• All places in Dyfed moved to either Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire (principal area) or Pembrokeshire (principal area). Dyfed became a preserved county.

• All places located under Brecon, Breconshire moved to Brecon, Powys. Brecon was a previous county, then county borough, now it's just a town.

Added England as an also-located-in place [26 August 2012]

I know this isn't correct, but it's needed so that the place-matcher links place texts of "Wales, England" to Wales instead of to Place:Wales, Yorkshire, England.--Dallan 11:10, 26 August 2012 (EDT)

Newport [13 September 2012]

Look at the places in Wales I have noticed at oddity for Newport.

Newport is both a City and a principle area. Newport (City) comes under Monmouthshire, Wales which is incorrect.

It should be either Newprt, Wales for both City and Principle area or it should be Newport, Newport.--Colin Madge 13:54, 5 September 2012 (EDT)

I think this is correct as it stands? Place:Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales (the city) is correct because Newport was located in Monmouthshire in the early 1900's, and we title places according to the jurisdiction they were in, in the early 1900s. That page says that Newport (the city) is also located in Place:Newport, Wales, which is the unitary authority that was created in the late 1900s / early 2000s. Is there a better way to represent this?--Dallan 09:45, 13 September 2012 (EDT)