Llangollen Rural () is a

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and

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Wrexham County Borough Wrexham County Borough () is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough, with city status in the United Kingdom, city status, in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It borders the English ceremonial counties of Cheshire and Shropshire to ...

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. It contains the villages of Froncysyllte, Garth, and

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, and had a population of 1,999 at the 2001 census,Llangollen Rural
Office for National Statistics 2,059 at the 2011 Census and 1,994 at the 2021 census. The Pontcysyllte aqueduct is a

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. Although named Rural, it is actually relatively densely populated.

History

The area historically formed part of the

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Llangollen Llangollen () is a town and community (Wales), community, situated on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, in Denbighshire, Wales. Its riverside location forms the edge of the Berwyn range, and the Dee Valley section of the Clwydian Range and Dee Val ...

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthi ...

. The central part of the parish around the town itself was administered as a local board district from 1857. Such districts were converted into urban districts under the

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, which also directed that

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

es could no longer straddle district boundaries. The parish of Llangollen was therefore reduced to match the urban district, and the remainder of the old parish was made a new parish called Llangollen Rural.Llangollen Rural Parish Council records
, Archives Wales The parish was converted into a

in 1974 under the

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, which also saw it transferred into the new county of

Clwyd Clwyd ( , ) is a preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east corner of the country; it is named after the River Clwyd, which runs through the area. To the north lies the Irish Sea, with the English cerem ...

. When the latter was abolished in 1996, Llangollen Rural was initially included in the new county of

, but was transferred to Wrexham County Borough in 1997, save for some areas which were transferred to the neighbouring community of Llangollen.

Governance

The community elects or co-opts 10 community councillors to Llangollen Rural Community Council, at the lowest level of local government.

References

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