Glan Conway (an anglicisation of the
Welsh ''Glan Conwy'') was an area 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 ...
of
Denbighshire
Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...
which was administered by the
Conway Rural District in the neighbouring county of
Caernarvonshire.
It consisted of two
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 below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
es formerly in the
Conway 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 ...
: Llanelian-yn-Rhos and
Llansantffraid Glan Conwy
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy (), usually shortened to Glan Conwy, is a village, Community (Wales), community and Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, electoral ward in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The name translates from the Welsh ...
.
This arrangement made sense as the parishes provided a connection between the main part of the Conway Rural District and the parish of
Llysfaen, which was a detached exclave of Caernarvonshire. In 1923 Llysfaen was transferred to Denbighshire to become part of
Colwyn Bay and Colwyn Urban District. Glan Conway remained under the aegis of Conway Rural District Council until 1935, when a general reorganisation of rural districts in Denbighshire under 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 ...
annexed the two parishes to
Aled Rural District.
The name Glan Conway was not used consistently: in some
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
reports it was called "Unnamed Rural District". The two parishes, Llansantffraid and Llanelian were represented by two members and one member respectively on the Conway RDC. The Conway RDC maintained separate accounts for each District and the Glan Conway RDC was also dealt with quite separately for other purposes, such as rating and health reports.
Sources
Denbighshire Administrative County (Vision of Britai
History of Denbighshire
History of Conwy County Borough