Districts of Wales

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Districts (Wales)

Category	Districts
Location	Wales
Found in	Counties
Created by	Local Government Act 1972
Created	1 April 1974
Abolished by	Local Government (Wales) Act 1994
Abolished	1 April 1996
Possible status	City
	Borough

In 1974, Wales was re-divided for local government purposes into thirty-seven districts. Districts were the second tier of local government introduced by the Local Government Act 1972, being subdivisions of the eight counties introduced at the same time. This system of two-tier local government was abolished in 1996 and replaced with the current system of unitary principal areas.

Each district was administered by an elected district council. The council was entitled to petition for a charter granting borough status, whereupon the district became a borough and the district council a borough council headed by a mayor. In addition, a district could be granted Letters Patent granting city status.

For the list of districts before 1974, see List of urban and rural districts in Wales.

[edit] Former districts

Code	District	Status	County	Successor UA
GD4	Aberconwy	Borough	Gwynedd	Conwy
WG4	Afan renamed Port Talbot 1986	Borough	West Glamorgan	Neath Port Talbot
C4	Alyn and Deeside	District	Clwyd	Flintshire
GD1	Anglesey - Ynys Môn	Borough	Gwynedd	Anglesey
GD3	Arfon	Borough	Gwynedd	Gwynedd
GT3	Blaenau Gwent	Borough	Gwent	Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire
P3	Brecknock	Borough	Powys	Powys
SG1	Cardiff	City	South Glamorgan	Cardiff
D4	Carmarthen	District	Dyfed	Carmarthenshire
MG3	Cynon Valley	Borough	Mid Glamorgan	Rhondda Cynon Taff
D1	Ceredigion	District	Dyfed	Ceredigion
C1	Colwyn	Borough	Clwyd	Conwy, Denbighshire
C3	Delyn	Borough	Clwyd	Flintshire
D6	Dinefwr	Borough	Dyfed	Carmarthenshire
GD2	Dwyfor	District	Gwynedd	Gwynedd
GT2	Islwyn	Borough	Gwent	Caerphilly
D5	Llanelli	Borough	Dyfed	Carmarthenshire
WG2	Lliw Valley	Borough	West Glamorgan	Neath Port Talbot, Swansea
C5	Glyndwr	District	Clwyd	Denbighshire, Powys, Wrexham
GD5	Meirionnydd	District	Gwynedd	Gwynedd
MG4	Merthyr Tydfil	Borough	Mid Glamorgan	Merthyr Tydfil
GT5	Monmouth	District, Borough from 1988	Gwent	Monmouthshire
P1	Montgomery, renamed Montgomeryshire 1986	District	Powys	Powys
WG3	Neath	Borough	West Glamorgan	Neath Port Talbot
GT1	Newport	Borough	Gwent	Newport
MG1	Ogwr	Borough	Mid Glamorgan	Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan
D2	Preseli, renamed Preseli Pembrokeshire 1987	District	Dyfed	Pembrokeshire
P2	Radnor, renamed Radnorshire 1989	District	Powys	Powys
MG2	Rhondda	Borough	Mid Glamorgan	Rhondda Cynon Taff
C2	Rhuddlan	Borough	Clwyd	Denbighshire
MG5	Rhymney Valley	District	Mid Glamorgan	Caerphilly
D3	South Pembrokeshire	District	Dyfed	Pembrokeshire
WG1	Swansea	City	West Glamorgan	Swansea
MG6	Taff-Ely	Borough	Mid Glamorgan	Rhondda Cynon Taff, Cardiff
GT4	Torfaen	Borough	Gwent	Torfaen
SG2	Vale of Glamorgan	Borough	South Glamorgan	Vale of Glamorgan
C6	Wrexham Maelor	Borough	Clwyd	Wrexham

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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