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unusual facts about county borough



Caherdavin

To the south and west is the River Shannon whilst to the east is the old Limerick city boundary Borough and to the north is the boundary with County Clare.

Direct grant grammar school

The grant system was restructured when the Board of Education was created in 1901 to fund early secondary schools, and the Education Act 1902 gave counties and county boroughs responsibility for schools, designating them as Local Education Authorities (LEAs).


see also

Baron Aldington

Baron Aldington, of Bispham in the County Borough of Blackpool, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Bridge FM

106.3 Bridge FM, commercial radio station from Bridgend County Borough, Wales

Cadoxton, Glamorgan

Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan, in the Vale of Glamorgan county borough in Wales

Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, in the Neath Port Talbot county borough in Wales

Cefn Golau

Cefn Golau is a disused cholera cemetery situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, and located between Rhymney and Tredegar in south-east Wales.

Conwy County Borough

The River Conwy, after which the county borough is named, lies wholly within the area: rising in Snowdonia and flowing through Llanrwst and Trefriw en route to the Irish Sea by Conwy.

District of Cardiff

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, from the county borough of Cardiff, the parishes of Lisvane, Llanedeyrn, Radyr, St. Fagans and Tongwynlais from the Cardiff rural district in the administrative county of Glamorgan and the parish of St Mellons from the Magor and St Mellons Rural District in the administrative county of Monmouthshire.

District of Newport

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1972, from the county borough of Newport, the Caerleon Urban District and Magor and St Mellons Rural District (except the parishes of Henllys and St Mellons) from the administrative county of Monmouthshire.

Howard Winstone

In 2005, he beat Owen Money, Richard Trevithick, Joseph Parry and Lady Charlotte Guest to be named "Greatest Citizen of Merthyr Tydfil", in a public vote competition run by Cyfarthfa Castle and Museum as part of the centenary celebrations to mark Merthyr’s incorporation as a county borough in 1905

Krumhermersdorf

Krumhermersdorf is a village in the large county borough of Zschopau in the district Erzgebirgskreis in East Germany.

Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry

Lord Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry (originally formally the County of the City of Londonderry, later renamed County Borough of Londonderry

Michaelston

Michaelston-y-Fedw, a small rural village and community to the west of the city of Newport, Wales, on the border of Cardiff city and Caerphilly county borough

Neath Guardian

Neither edition covered the communities of the Swansea Valley, even though some are within the boundaries of the Neath Port Talbot county borough.

Old Hill

Old Hill was historically in the urban district and later county borough of Rowley Regis, and in the county of Staffordshire.

Pen-y-Lan

Pen-Y-Lan Hall is a grade II listed mansion located near the village of Ruabon in Wrexham County Borough

Rhos

Rhosllannerchrugog, a village in the County Borough of Wrexham in northeast Wales

Tonna

Tonna, Neath, a village in Wales, part of the county borough Neath Port Talbot