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British History: Cardiganshire
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A west-coast county of Wales bordering the Irish Sea. In 1974 it became the district of Ceredigion in the county of Dyfed, but in 1996 was reconstituted as a county, retaining the name Ceredigion. That name, from which Cardigan is derived, is supposedly after Ceredig, the son of Cunedda, a leader of the Votadini. After its conquest by Edward I in 1277, it was created one of the shires of the principality by the statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. At the Act of Union with England in 1536 it was retained as a county and has remained as such to the present, apart from the period 1974-96. Its western location has meant that it has been a bastion of the Welsh language.

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[Welsh Ceredigion, Caredigion]

Former maritime county (until 1974) of south Wales, now the northernmost third of Dyfed, bordered on the west by Cardigan Bay. Named for Ceredigion, a son of Cunedda. In Welsh legend a portion of Cardigan known as Cantre'r Gwaelod was flooded to become Cardigan Bay. See also FLOOD; the Breton story of ffis; the Irish story of LOUGH NEAGH.

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Cardiganshire
Motto: Golud Gwlad Rhyddid (A nation's wealth is freedom)
Image:WalesCardiganshireTrad.png
Ancient extent of Cardiganshire
Geography
1831 area 443,387 acres (1,794.32 km2)
1911/1961 area 443,189 acres (1,793.52 km2)
HQ Cardigan
Chapman code CGN
History
Created 1282
Succeeded by Ceredigion
Demography
1831 population
- 1831 density		 64,780[1]
0.1/acre
1911 population
- 1911 density		 59,879
0.1/acre
1961 population
- 1961 density		 53,648
0.1/acre
Politics
Governance Cardiganshire County Council (1889-1974)

Cardiganshire (Welsh: 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.


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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 50 miles (80 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

Trivia

 Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (January 2008)

The Cardigan Welsh Corgi derives its name from Cardiganshire.

References

  1. ^ Vision of Britain - 1831 Census


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