Colwyn

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Colwyn


Geography
Status	Borough
HQ	Colwyn Bay
History
Created	1974
Abolished	1996
Succeeded by	Conwy county borough, Denbighshire

The Borough of Colwyn was one of six districts of Clwyd, North Wales from 1974 to 1996.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1972 from the following parts of the administrative county of Denbighshire:

The municipal borough of Colwyn Bay
The urban district of Abergele
Parts of the rural districts of Aled and Hiraethog.

The borough was abolished in 1996, when wales was divided into unitary authorities created by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. The area of Colwyn was split: a large part going to Aberconwy and Colwyn county borough, (soon renamed as Conwy), and the remainder going to Denbighshire unitary authority.

Colwyn is twinned with Konstanz, Germany and Roissy-en-Brie, France.

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Local government in Wales

Principal areas established in 1996

Anglesey • Blaenau Gwent • Bridgend • Caerphilly • Cardiff • Carmarthenshire • Ceredigion • Conwy • Denbighshire • Flintshire • Gwynedd • Merthyr Tydfil • Monmouthshire • Neath Port Talbot • Newport • Pembrokeshire • Powys • Rhondda Cynon Taff • Swansea • Torfaen • Vale of Glamorgan • Wrexham

Counties and districts 1974 - 1996

Clwyd	Alyn and Deeside • Colwyn • Delyn • Glyndŵr • Rhuddlan • Wrexham Maelor

Dyfed	Carmarthen • Ceredigion • Dinefwr • Llanelli • Preseli Pembrokeshire • South Pembrokeshire

Gwent	Blaenau Gwent • Islwyn • Monmouth • Newport • Torfaen

Gwynedd	Aberconwy • Arfon • Dwyfor • Meirionnydd • Ynys Môn - Isle of Anglesey

Mid Glamorgan	Cynon Valley • Merthyr Tydfil • Ogwr • Rhondda • Rhymney Valley • Taff-Ely

Powys	Brecknock • Montgomeryshire • Radnorshire

South Glamorgan	Cardiff • Vale of Glamorgan

West Glamorgan	Lliw Valley • Neath • Port Talbot • Swansea