Bodorgan

Coordinates: 53°10′48″N 4°24′36″W / 53.180°N 4.410°W / 53.180; -4.410
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Bodorgan
Anglesey
Population921 (2011)
OS grid referenceSH389675
Community
  • Bodorgan
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBODORGAN
Postcode districtLL62
Dialling code01407
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Anglesey
53°10′48″N 4°24′36″W / 53.180°N 4.410°W / 53.180; -4.410

Bodorgan is a village and

electoral ward, 72.7% of them being able to speak Welsh. This increased to 1,704 at the 2011 Census but only 67.72% of this increased population were Welsh speakers.[1]

The village is served by Bodorgan railway station, which is located near the hamlets of Bethel and Llangadwaladr to the north-west, which are in the community, as is Malltraeth. It lies on an unclassified road to the southwest of the village of Hermon, through which the A4080 road passes. To the east and south of Bodorgan lies the estuary of the Afon Cefni and the extensive Malltraeth Sands.[2]

Duchess of Cambridge lived in a farmhouse on the Bodorgan Estate during the time when Prince William was serving as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot based at RAF Valley nearby.[citation needed
]

The village hosted several matches of the 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament, a replacement football tournament for the popular Island Games. The games were held in Gibraltar but due to lack of pitches there Anglesey was deemed to be a better host.

The former RAF Bodorgan is nearby.

Governance

The local government

ward of Bodorgan, including the village of Llangadwaladr and a number of other small hamlets, had a total of 900 inhabitants,[4] increasing slightly to 921 at the 2011 Census.[5] However, following the 2012 Isle of Anglesey electoral boundary changes Bodorgan became part of a larger Bro Aberffraw ward with the neighbouring communities of Aberffraw and Rhosyr.[6]

In November 2012, 101-year old Bodorgan community councillor, Mary Edwards

MBE, was the UK's oldest community councillor. She had represented Bodorgan on Aethwy District Council between 1948 and 1974, subsequently serving on Anglesey County Council until 1996.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Ward population and percentage of Welsh speakers 2011". Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  2. ISBN 978-0-319-26212-2
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  3. ^ "Bodorgan". Coflein:Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  4. ^ Bodorgan Community, ONS
  5. ^ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Isle of Anglesey (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2012" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  7. ^ "UK's oldest community councillor gets lifetime achievement award". North Wales Live. 5 November 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

External links

Media related to Bodorgan at Wikimedia Commons

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