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| Monmouthshire county | |
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| Geography | |
| Area: - Total - % Water | Ranked 7th 850 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ: | Cwmbran |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-MON |
| ONS code: | 00PP |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total ( April 29, 2001) - Density | Ranked 18th 84,885 100 / km² |
| Welsh language: - Any skills | Ranked 22nd 12.9% |
| Politics | |
| Monmouthshire Council http://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk | |
| News | |
| Monmouth Town Online Magazine http://www.towncrier.org.uk | |
| Control: | Conservative Party |
| MPsThis is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at: | Huw EdwardsHuw William Edmund Edwards (born April 12, 1953) is the Labour member of Parliament for Monmouth in Wales. He was elected in 1991 to the seat at a by-election but lost it in the 1992 election. He won it again in the 1997 election and has held it since. Alan HowarthThe Right Honourable Alan Howarth CBE (born June 11, 1944), is a British politician, and member of Parliament for Newport East. In 1995 he defected from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party, the first MP to defect from the Tories to Labour since Sir |
Monmouthshire ( Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in south-east WalesFor alternate meanings, see Wales (disambiguation Wales ( Welsh: Cymru pronounced /"k@mrI/ SAMPA, km IPA, 'Kumree' approximate pronunciation) is one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom (the other three being England, Scotland and Northern Ir. The current administrative areaFor local government purposes, Wales is divided into 22 unitary authorities. There are 9 counties, 3 cities, and 10 county boroughs, although all have equal status. Collectively these are known as the principal areas of Wales . They came into being on Apr was created in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan and covers the eastern half of the traditional county - namely the following towns:
It was formed on April 1, 1996 as a successor to the previous district of Monmouth along with a small part of the former Blaenau Gwent district.
| Monmouthshire traditional county | |
The traditional county of Monmouthshire includes Newport, and borders Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Brecknockshire, and Glamorgan. The administrative county of Gwent, which existed from 1974 to 1996, covered this area almost exactly. The traditional county also includes the exclave of Welsh Bicknor, locally situate a short distance east of Monmouthshire's east border, sandwiched between the borders of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. For administrative purposes this has been part of Herefordshire since 1844.
Monmouthshire's Welsh status was ambiguous until 1974 when the area (as Gwent) was specifically incorporated into Wales as part of a local government reform. Previously the legal formula had been to refer to 'Wales and Monmouthshire'. In popular usage it had been considered part of Wales for many centuries. The ambiguity surrounding its status arose from its not being mentioned in the second Act of Union between England and Wales in the 16th century. The 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica unambigiously described the county as part of England, but notes that 'whenever an act [...] is intended to apply to [Wales] alone, then Wales is always coupled with Monmouthshire'.
However, this is to some extent a legal fiction. The 'Act of Union' (strictly the 'Statute of Wales') made the whole of Wales part of England and so it did not define Monmouthshire as different to the other twelve Welsh counties. The question of Monmouthshire's status continued to be a matter of discussion, especially as Welsh nationalism and devolution climbed the political agenda in the 20th century: nonetheless, in the rare event that an Act of Parliament was restricted to Wales, Monmouthshire was always included, and the creation of the Welsh Office in 1964 explicitly included Monmouthshire. For administrative reasons, the question was clarified in law by an Order in Council of 1968 and further clarified by the Local Government Act of 1972.
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