Official website (https://www.bridgend.gov.uk/)
Bridgend County Borough
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principal area in south-east Wales, United Kingdom
Key facts
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Country
- Wales
- Preserved county
- Mid Glamorgan
- Incorporated
- 1 April 1996
- Administrative hq
- Bridgend
- Type
- Principal council
- Body
- Bridgend County Borough Council
- Control
- Labour
- Mps
- 3 MPs Chris Bryant ( L ) Chris Elmore ( L ) Stephen Kinnock ( L )
- Mss
- 2 MSs Huw Irranca-Davies ( L ) Sarah Murphy ( L ) +4 regional members
- Total
- 97 sq mi (251 km )
- Rank
- 17th
- Density
- 1,520/sq mi (588/km )
- Speakers
- 9.2%
- Time zone
- UTC+0 ( GMT )
- Summer dst
- UTC+1 ( BST )
- Iso 3166 code
- GB-BGE
- Gss code
- W06000013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county borough
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wales
- Population
- 144876
- Area
- 250.7303
- Body of water
- Bristol Channel
- Shares border with
- Neath Port Talbot
- Official website
- www.bridgend.gov.uk
- Motto
- Ymlaen gyda Hyder
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- twinned administrative body
- Langenau
- Commons category
- Bridgend County Borough
- topic's main category
- Category:Bridgend County Borough
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bridgend County Borough
- native label
- Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr
- different from
- Bridgend
- located in/on physical feature
- Great Britain
- language used
- English language
- replaces
- Mid Glamorgan
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- P12749
- La Croix-Rousse
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Encyclopedic overview
Bridgend County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. The county borough was formed in 1996 and contains the town of Bridgend, after which it is named.
The county borough lies at the geographical heart of south Wales. Its land area of 110 mi (285 km) stretches 12 miles (20 km) from east to west and occupies the Llynfi, Garw and Ogmore valleys. The largest town is Bridgend, followed by Maesteg and Porthcawl. The county borough lies on the River Ogmore and its tributaries, although the Ewenny and Ogwr Fach rivers form the border with the Vale of Glamorgan for much of their length.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bridgend County Borough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.