Mid Glamorgan Postcodes — Wales (WLS)

Mid Glamorgan

Welsh speakers will be familiar with the name Morgannwg Ganol, the county of Mid Glamorgan. It also functioned as an administrative county with a county council from 1974 to 1996.

As a result of the passage of the Local Government Act in 1972, Mid Glamorgan County was established in 1974. Penderyn and Vaynor parishes in Brecknockshire, the urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Rhymney, and a portion of Bedwellty in Monmouthshire, and a portion of the former administrative county of Glamorgan were all included.

Six separate regions were created:

• Cynon Valley
• Ogwr
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Rhondda
• Rhymney Valley
• Taff-Ely

As a result of the Local Government (Wales) Act of 1994, the county of Mid Glamorgan and its constituent districts were dissolved in 1996, and their territory was divided among the unitary authorities of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and a portion of Caerphilly.

Wick, St. Brides Major, and Ewenny (all from the Ogwr district) were annexed by the Vale of Glamorgan county borough, while Pentyrch (from the Taff-Ely district) was included in the Cardiff unitary authority area. As a result, they were incorporated into South Glamorgan County, which is dedicated to preservation. By further adjusting the borders in 2003, the entire county borough of Caerphilly is now included in the county of Gwent for ceremonial purposes.

Although technically located in another county, the Mid Glamorgan County Council previously had offices in the Glamorgan Building (the former headquarters of Glamorgan County Council) in Cathays Park, Cardiff, as well as in the nearby Greyfriars Road.

The county council adopted a coat of arms that was strikingly similar to the one used by the previous council of Glamorganshire: Or, three chevronels gules between two clarions of the last in chief, and in base a Tudor rose barbed and seeded proper. Like in Glamorganshire, the flag bore the three chevronels from the arms of Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last ruler of the old Kingdom of Morgannwg, and the crest depicted a Welsh dragon rising from flames. The coalminer and the steelworker were kept on as defenders of the arms, but their roles were switched. In addition, Glamorganshire's motto "He Who Suffers, Conquers" (A Ddioddefws A Orfu) was kept.