Montgomeryshire (Wales)

LC control no.	n 82058898
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Montgomeryshire (Wales) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Wales--Montgomeryshire
Variant(s)	Montgomeryshire, Wales Montgomeryshire Montgomery (Wales : County) Montgomery (Wales : District) Sir Drefaldwyn (Wales) Drefaldwyn (Wales : County) County of Montgomery (Wales) County Montgomery (Wales) Maldwyn (Wales)
See also	Powys (Wales) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	Wales Great Britain
Associated place	Powys (Wales) Wales, Mid
Located	Montgomery (Wales) Welshpool (Wales) Newtown (Powys, Wales)
Found in	Davies, D. W. From horses to helicopters, 1961. Muni. yr. bk., 1988, p. 1xxiii (Montgomeryshire, former county; after 1974 reorganization, a district in Powys) Webster's new geog. dict., 1984: p. 786 (Montgomeryshire or Montgomery; former county, E Wales; see Powys) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (civil; 52°35ʹ00ʺN 003°30ʹ00ʺW) GEOnet, 26 March 2020 (Montgomeryshire (approved); Montgomery (short, variant); Drefaldwyn (variant); geopolitical entity name: United Kingdom; first-order administrative division name: Powys (English and Welsh); latitude, longitude: DMS: 52° 35ʹ 00ʺ N, 003° 30ʹ 00ʺ W; DD: 52.583333 [N], -3.5 [W]; feature designation: administrative division) Wikipedia, 26 March 2020: Montgomeryshire (Montgomeryshire; redirects from: County of Montgomery, County Montgomery; also known as Maldwyn (Welsh: Sir Drefaldwyn); one of 13 historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales; named after its county town, Montgomery; today constitutes the northern part of the principal area of Powys; was formed from the cantrefi of Y Fyrnwy, Llyswynaf, Ystlyg, Cedewain, and Arwystli, also gained commote of Ceri; medieval kingdom of Powys Wenwynwyn became Lordship of Powys; with Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542, the marcher lordships were converted into English counties, so Lordship of Paowys became Montgomeryshire, with county town Montgomery (strongest centre of English authority) rather than Welshpool (centre of Welsh authority); 1889-1974, became an administrative county, with assizes and Montgomeryshire County Council seated in Montgomery, but administration continued[?] to be based at Welshpool, regarded as county town prior to the 1889 reforms; local government reforms in 1974 combined the administrative areas of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and Breconshire to form a new administrative county, Powys; Montgomeryshire became a district of Powys, with its administrative headquarters in Newtown; further local government reform in 1996 abolished district councils in Wales, including Montgomeryshire District Council, making Powys a unitary authority; the Montgomeryshire area continued to have an administrative/political function as one of the 3 committee areas used by Powys Council along with the other 2 historic counties (Radnorshire and Breconshire), but these committee areas were abolished in 2018; DMS: 52° 35ʹ 0ʺ N, 003° 30ʹ 0ʺ W; decimal: 52.583333 [N], -3.5 [W]) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montgomeryshire&oldid=915963371> Wikidata, 27 March 2020 (Montgomeryshire (Q38825); also known as: County of Montgomery; description: historic county of Wales, historic county of the United Kingdom; Spanish: one of 13 historic counties of Gales, on island of Gran Bretaña; inception: 1535, Gregorian) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38825> Wikipedia, 26 March 2020: Powys (a principal area and county, and one of the preserved counties of Wales; named after Kingdom of Powys; covers historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire (Breconshire), and a small part of Denbighshire; 1 April 1974, was created under the Local Government Act 1972, originally had Montgomery, Radnor, and Brecknock as districts within it, based directly on the former administrative counties; 1 April 1996, the districts were abolished, and Powys was reconstituted as a unitary authority with a minor border adjustment in the northeast) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powys&oldid=945668483> Wikipedia, 30 October 2017: Powys (a principal area, local-government county, and preserved county in Mid Wales)
Geographic area code	e-uk-wl