Blaenavon Urban District Council Records

Records of Blaenavon Urban District Council, 1872-1974, and Blaenavon Local Board, 1858-1872.

Blaenavon Urban District Council (UDC), Monmouthshire, was established under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894. The Council comprised a number of councillors and a chairman and superseded Blaenavon Local Board of Health. 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. Blaenavon 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, Blaenavon 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); 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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