Cwmbrân Urban District Council Records

Records of Cwmbrân Urban District Council, 1935-1974.

Cwmbrân Urban District Council (UDC), Monmouthshire, was created on 1 April 1935 from Llantarnam and Llanfrechfa Upper Urban District Councils and comprised the parishes of Llanfihangel Llantarnam and Llanfrechfa Upper. The Council comprised a number of councillors and a chairman. Its responsibilities included sanitary services, sewerage, refuse collection, housing, streets, cemeteries, libraries, parks, controls on buildings such as petrol stations, and licensing of public entertainments. UDCs were administered by a number of committees and by appointed officers including a Clerk, Treasurer, Medical Officer of Health, Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector. Cwmbrân UDC was abolished in 1974 following local government reorganisation and its functions were assumed by the new Borough of Torfaen.

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Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Gwent Record Office, Cwmbrân Urban District Council, catalogue; Jackson, W. Eric, The Structure of Local Government in England and Wales (London: Longmans, 1949); Hey, David, Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History (Oxford, 1997); Richards, Melville, Welsh Administrative and Territorial Units (Cardiff, 1969); A Vision of Britain website (www.visionofbritain.org.uk), viewed 16 September 2005; Civic Heraldry of England & Wales website (www.civicheraldry.co.uk), viewed 16 September 2005.

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Gwent Record Office.

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All records have been retained

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Medical Officer of Health reports are in Gwent Record Office, D3604. Records of Llantarnam and Llanfrechfa Upper UDCs are Gwent Record Office, A4212 and A422.