Cardiganshire

Cardiganshire

infobox historic subdivision
Name= Cardiganshire
HQ= Cardigan
Government= Cardiganshire County Council (1889-1974)
Origin=
Status=
Start= 1282
End=
Code= CGN
CodeName= Chapman code
Replace= Ceredigion
Motto= Golud Gwlad Rhyddid (A nation's wealth is freedom)
Divisions=
DivisionsNames=
Divisions





"Ancient extent of Cardiganshire"
Arms=
Civic=

PopulationFirst= 64,780Vision of Britain - [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/census/table_page.jsp?tab_id=GB1831ABS_M%5B1%5D&u_id=10001043&show=DB&min_c=11&max_c=15 1831 Census] ]
PopulationFirstYear= 1831
AreaFirst= convert|443387|acre|km2
AreaFirstYear= 1831
DensityFirst= 0.1/acre
DensityFirstYear= 1831

PopulationSecond= 59,879
PopulationSecondYear= 1911
AreaSecond= convert|443189|acre|km2
AreaSecondYear= 1911/1961
DensitySecond= 0.1/acre
DensitySecondYear= 1911

PopulationLast= 53,648
PopulationLastYear= 1961
AreaLast=
AreaLastYear=
DensityLast= 0.1/acre
DensityLastYear= 1961
Cardiganshire ( _cy. Sir Aberteifi) was an ancient county of Wales created in 1282. In extent it is more or less identical to Ceredigion, a county constituted as Cardiganshire in 1996, with the name reverting to Ceredigion a day later.

History

In 1282 Edward I of England conquered the principality of Wales and divided the area into counties. The name Cardigan was an anglicization of the name for the historic kingdom of Ceredigion. The area of the county became a district under the name Ceredigion in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and since 1996 has formed the county of Ceredigion.

Geography

Cardiganshire was a maritime county bounded to the west by Cardigan Bay, to the north by Merionethshire and the River Dovey, to the east by Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Brecknockshire, and to the south by Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. The county had an approximate population of 64,000. The Cambrian Mountains cover much of the east of the county. In the south and west the surface is less elevated. The highest point is Plynlimon at 2,486 feet (758 m) at which five rivers have their source: the Severn, the Wye, the Dulas, the Llyfnant and Rheidol, the last of which meets the Mynach in a 300 foot (100 m) plunge at the Devil's Bridge chasm. The convert|50|mi|km of coastline has many sandy beaches.

The main towns are Aberaeron, Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Lampeter, New Quay, Newcastle Emlyn (partly in Carmarthenshire) and Tregaron. The chief river is the Teifi which forms the border with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire for much of its length. Tourism and agriculture, chiefly hill farming, are the most important industries.

Although Cardiganshire and the former county of Merionethshire shared a boundary, it was not possible to directly travel between the two as all road and rail traffic avoided the Dovey estuary and went via Machynlleth in historic Montgomeryshire.

Government

Cardiganshire's county council took over the functions of county administration from the Quarter Sessions court in 1889. It was abolished 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 — and it was succeeded by the district of Ceredigion in the new county of Dyfed. This district was split out in 1996 as a unitary authority, and has (bar minor realignments) identical borders to the former county.

Places of Interest

*Ceredigion Museum,Aberystwyth (gbmapping|SN5881)
*Devil's Bridge (gbmapping|SN7477)
*Strata Florida Abbey (gbmapping|SN7465)
*Vale of Rheidol Railway (gbmapping|SN5881).

Trivia

The Cardigan Welsh Corgi derives its name from Cardiganshire.

References


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