Pontypool Rural District Council Records

Records of Pontypool Rural District Council, 1894-1974.

Pontypool Rural District Council (RDC), Monmouthshire, was established under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894 and comprised (in 1969) the parishes of Goetre Fawr, Gwehelog Fawr, Llanbadog Fawr, Llanfrechfa Lower, Llangybi Fawr, Llanhenwg Fawr and Llantrisaint Fawr. The Council comprised a number of councillors and a chairman and superseded the local sanitary authority. Its responsibilities included sanitary services, sewerage, refuse collection, maintaining local roads, cemeteries and parks, licensing of public entertainments, water supply and housing. RDCs were administered by a number of committees and by appointed officers including a Clerk, Treasurer, Medical Officer of Health, Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector. Pontypool RDC was abolished in 1974 following local government reorganisation, and its functions were assumed by the new Monmouth and Torfaen Borough Councils.

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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, Pontypool Rural 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 Through Time website (www.visionofbritain.org.uk), viewed 20 September 2005.

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

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