Conwy Coonty Burgh

Conwy County Borough
Bwrdeistref Sirol Conwy

Geography
Aurie - Total - % Watter	Rankit 6t 1,130 km² ? %
Admeen HQ	Conwy
ISO 3166-2	GB-CWY
ONS code	00NE
Demographics
Population: - (2010 est.) - Densitie	Ranked 15th 110,900 Ranked 16th 98 / km²
Ethnicity	98.2% White
Welsh leid - Ony skills	Ranked 5t 39.7%
Politics
Conwy County Borough Council http://www.conwy.gov.uk/
Control	TBA (council NOC)
MPs	Guto Bebb David Jones
AMs	Darren Millar Janet Finch-Saunders (Constituency) North Wales (Regional)
MEPs	Wales

Conwy Coonty Burgh (Welsh: Bwrdeisdref Sirol Conwy) is a unitary authority aurie in north o Wales.

Geography

It contains the major settlements o Llandudno, Llandudno Junction, Llanrwst, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, Colwyn Bay, Abergele, Penmaenmawr an Llanfairfechan, an haes a total population o aboot 110,000.

The River Conwy, efter which the coonty burgh is namit, lies wholly athin the aurie: risin in Snowdonia an flowin through Llanrwst an Trefriw en route tae the Erse Sea bi Conwy. The river here marks the border atween the historic coonties o Caernarfonshire an Denbighshire.

Ane third o the land aurie o the coonty burgh lees in the Snowdonia naitional pairk, an the cooncil appoint three o the 18 members o the Snowdonia Naitional Pairk Authority.

Welsh leid

Accordin tae the 2001 Census 39.7% o the population o the copnty burgh hae "ane or mair skills" in the Welsh leid, which ranks it 5t oot o 22 principal auries in Wales.

The amoont o Welsh spoken in the coonty burgh greatly varies frae location tae location, wi generally the least being spoken on the coastal fringe.

Examples o the percentage speakin Welsh bi electoral ward :

• Mostyn (Llandudno) 19.7%
• Colwyn 22.6%
• Conwy 33%
• Trefriw 50%
• Eglwysbach 63%
• Conwy Uwch (Upper Conwy) 66.8%
• Llangernyw 69.3%
• Cerrigydrudion 76%

Government

Main airticle: Conwy County Borough Council

The coonty burgh wis formit on 1 Aprile 1996 bi mergin the destricts o Aberconwy an Colwyn when it wis oreeginally namit Aberconwy an Colwyn. Housomeivver, its cooncil renamit the destrict a day later, on 2 Aprile 1996 tae Conwy.

Politics

Conwy is representit in Parliament bi Guto Bebb (Con) an David Jones (Con), though David Jones' Clwyd West constituency an aw covers pairt o soothren Denbighshire. In the National Assembly for Wales, it is representit bi Janet Finch-Saunders(Con) an Darren Millar (Con).

Coat o airms

Conwy County Borough Council wis grantit a coat o airms bi the College of Arms in 2001. The new airms recaw those o baith Aberconwy an Colwyn Borough Councils. The main pairt o the shield depicts blue an siller waves for the river frae which the county burgh takes its name, an recaws the gowd an blue wavy field o Colwyn's airms an aw. On top o the waves is placit a symbolic red touer, representin Conwy Castle. The chief or upper third o the shield is coloured green, the main colour in Aberconwy's airms. In the centre o the chief is a severed head frae the heraldry o Marchudd ap Cynan, Laird o Abergele an Rhos. On either side are twa black spears embrued, or haein drops o blood on their points. These come frae the reputit airms o Nefydd Hardd, associatit wi the Nant Conwy aurie. In front o each spear is a gowden garb or wheatsheaf, for the rural auries o the coonty burgh.

Abuin the shield, placit on the steel helm uisual tae Breetish civic airms, is the crest. This takes the form o the Welsh red dragon supportin a Bible, risin frae a wreath o oak leaves an acorns. The representation o the Bible is tae commemorate the fact that the first Welsh leid translation o the beuk oreeginatit in the aurie, while the oak circlet recalls that an oak tree formit the main chairge in the airms o Colwyn Borough Council, an its predecessor the municipal burgh o Colwyn Bay.

The motto adoptit is "Tegwch i Bawb", meanin "Fairness tae Aw"

See an aw

• Leet o places in Conwy Coonty Burgh for a leet o touns an veelages.

Freemit airtins

• Conwy Coonty Burgh at the Open Directory Project