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BEDWELLTY REGISTRATION DISTRICT

Registration County : Monmouthshire.
Created
: 1.7.1861 (out of Abergavenny registration district).
Sub-districts : Abertillery, Aberystruth, Ebbw Vale, Rhymney Valley, Rock Bedwelty, Tredegar.
GRO volumes : 11a (1861–1946), 8C (1946–74).
Registers now held by : Blaenau Gwent.

Table 1: List of Places in Bedwellty Registration District

Civil Parish

County

From

To

Comments

Abertillery

Monmouthshire

1894

1974

Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Aberystruth in Abertillery Urban District.

Aberystruth

Monmouthshire

1861

1889

In 1889 the parts of the parish of Aberystruth in the urban districts of Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale became part of Brecknockshire, in 1894 these areas became the separate parishes of Aberystruth Brynmawr Urban and Ebbw Vale, so that thereafter Aberystruth was again wholly in Monmouthshire. See also Table 2, notes (a) and (b).

Monmouthshire and Brecknockshire

1889

1894

Monmouthshire

1894

1974

Aberystruth Brynmawr Urban

Brecknockshire

1894

1900

Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Aberystruth in Brynmawr Urban District. See also Table 2, note (c).

Beaufort

Monmouthshire

1934

1974

See Table 2, note (d).

Bedwellty

Monmouthshire

1861

1974

See Table 2, notes (a) and (e)

Dukestown

Monmouthshire

1934

1974

See Table 2, note (d).

Ebbw Vale

Monmouthshire

1894

1974

Created 1894 from parts of the parishes of Bedwellty and Aberystruth in Ebbw Vale Urban District.

Llanhilleth

Monmouthshire

1939

1974

See Table 2, note (f).

Llechryd

Monmouthshire

1934

1974

See Table 2, note (d).

Rassa

Monmouthshire

1934

1974

See Table 2, note (d).

Rhymney

Monmouthshire

1894

1974

Created 1894 from the rural part of the parish of Bedwellty.

Tredegar

Monmouthshire

1894

1974

Created 1894 from the part of the parish of Bedwellty in Tredegar Urban District.

Table 2: Boundary Changes affecting Bedwellty Registration District

Date of Change

Note

Description of Change

Population transferred

1.7.1861
(created)

(a)

Gained the parishes of Aberystruth and Bedwellty from Abergavenny registration district.

47565 in 1861

1.7.1895

(b)

Lost part of the parish of Aberystruth (which became part of the parish of Blaenavon in 1894) to Abergavenny registration district.

75 in 1891

1.5.1900

(c)

Lost the parish of Aberystruth Brynmawr Urban to Crickhowell registration district.

270 in 1891

299 in 1901

1.10.1934

(d)

Gained the parishes of Beaufort, Dukestown, Llechryd, and Rassa, from Crickhowell registration district.

6732 in 1931

1.4.1939

(e)

Gained part of the parish of Bedwellty (which until 1.4.1935 formed part of the parish of Mynyddislwyn) from Caerleon registration district.

896 in 1931

(f)

Gained the parish of Llanhilleth from Pontypool registration district.

8974 in 1931


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