Aethwy was a rural district in the

administrative county An administrative county was a first-level administrative division in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974, and in Ireland from 1899 until either 1973 (in Northern Ireland) or 2002 (in the Republic of Ireland). They are now abolished, although mos ...

Anglesey Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...

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, from 1894 to 1974. It was created under the

Local Government Act 1894 The Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The Act followed the reforms carried out at county level un ...

from the part of the Bangor

rural sanitary district Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary dis ...

which was on Anglesey. In 1933 it was expanded by a

county review order The Local Government Act 1929 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales. The Act abolished the system of poor law unions in England and Wales and their boar ...

, taking in all of the abolished Dwyran Rural District. The district was abolished under the

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Act 1972, becoming part of a single Ynys Môn - Isle of Anglesey district.

Civil parishes

Over its existence the rural district contained the following

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es: †In Dwyran RD until 1933.

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071001030241/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10114081&c_id=10001043 {{coord, 53.168, -4.332, display=title, region:GB_scale:10000 Rural districts of Wales History of Anglesey 1894 establishments in Wales