Records of Panteg/Pontypool UDCs Parks, Cemeteries & Allotments Department

Panteg Cemetery records, 1933-1955, including purchase of graves and interment receipt books, 1933-1942, and interment notices and certificates, 1948-1955; Pontypool UDC Parks, Cemeteries and Allotments Department records, 1935-1958, including park sales receipt books, 1944-1948, wages account books, 1951-1957, official order books, 1944-1958, and general receipt books, 1948-1956; parks and cemeteries superintendents correspondence, 1956-1957; printed journals and reports, 1928-1961.

Pontypool and Panteg Urban District Councils (UDCs), Monmouthshire, were established under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894. UDCs comprised councillors and a chairman who were elected for three years. Their many responsibilities included cemeteries and parks. On 1 April 1935 the two councils, along with Abersychan UDC, were merged with the resultant Pontypool UDC being abolished following Local Government reorganisation in 1974.

Arranged into the following: administrative and financial records; correspondence; printed journals and reports.

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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, Catalogue of Records of Panteg/Pontypool UDC Parks, Cemeteries & Allotments Department; Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire, 1901 (www.kellys1901.co.uk), viewed 11 June 2004; A Vision of Britain website (www.visionofbritain.org.uk), viewed 29 September 2005.

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Gwent Record Office, the National Library of Wales and the National Register of Archives.

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