Cowbridge
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Cowbridge () is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately west of the centre of Cardiff.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.official_name
- Cowbridge
- UK place.welsh_name
- Y Bont-faen
- UK place.community_wales
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Vale of Glamorgan
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- South Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Vale of Glamorgan
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Vale of Glamorgan
- UK place.post_town
- COWBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_area
- CF
- UK place.postcode_district
- CF71
- UK place.dial_code
- 01446
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SS995745
- UK place.population
- 4,063
- UK place.population_ref
- (community 2011)
- UK place.static_image_name
- Cowbridge High Street.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Cowbridge High Street
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Roman times
- Middle Ages
- Georgian times
- Notable buildings
- Modern times
- Schools
- Secondary schools
- Primary schools
- Sport
- Cultural activities
- Notable residents
- Twinning
- See also
- References
- External links
Cowbridge () is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately west of the centre of Cardiff.
The Cowbridge with Llanblethian community and civil parish elect a town council. A Cowbridge electoral ward exists for elections to the Vale of Glamorgan Council. This ward includes Cowbridge, Llanblethian and Llanfair.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cowbridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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