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Bridgend County Borough
Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr (Welsh) | |
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 Coat of arms | |
| Motto: Onward With Confidence | |
 Bridgend shown within Wales | |
| Coordinates: 51°33′17″N 03°35′29″W / 51.55472°N 3.59139°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Country | Wales |
| Preserved county | Mid Glamorgan |
| Incorporated | 1 April 1996 |
| Administrative HQ | Bridgend |
| Government | |
| • Type | Principal council |
| • Body | Bridgend County Borough Council |
| • Control | Labour |
| • MPs | 3 MPs
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| • MSs | 2 MSs |
| Area | |
• Total | 97 sq mi (251 km2) |
| • Rank | 17th |
| Population (2022)[2] | |
• Total | 146,136 |
| • Rank | 8th |
| • Density | 1,510/sq mi (583/km2) |
| Welsh language (2021) | |
| • Speakers | 9.2% |
| • Rank | 19th |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
| ISO 3166 code | GB-BGE |
| GSS code | W06000013 |
| Website | bridgend |
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Bridgend County Borough (Welsh: Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. The county borough has a total population of 139,200 people, and contains the town of Bridgend, after which it is named. Its members of the Senedd are Sarah Murphy MS, representing the Bridgend Constituency, and Huw Irranca-Davies MS representing the Ogmore Constituency, and its members of the UK parliament are Chris Bryant, Chris Elmore, and Stephen Kinnock.
The county borough lies at the geographical heart of south Wales. Its land area of 110 mi2 (285 km2) stretches 12 miles (20 km) from east to west and occupies the Llynfi, Garw and Ogmore valleys. The largest town is Bridgend (pop: 39,773), followed by Maesteg (pop: 20,700) and Porthcawl (pop: 19,238). It is situated on the Ogmore River and its tributaries, although the Ewenny and Ogwr Fach rivers form the border with the Vale of Glamorgan for much of their length.
It was formed on 1 April 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. It includes all of the former Ogwr borough apart from the communities of Wick, St Bride's Major and Ewenny, which went to Vale of Glamorgan. Bridgend County Borough was divided into 20 communities: Brackla, Bridgend, Cefn Cribwr, Coity Higher, Coychurch Higher, Coychurch Lower, Cornelly, Garw Valley, Laleston, Llangynwyd Lower, Llangynwyd Middle, Maesteg, Merthyr Mawr, Newcastle Higher, Ogmore Valley, Pencoed, Porthcawl, Pyle, St Bride's Minor and Ynysawdre. The communities of Brackla, Bridgend and Coychurch Lower make up the town of Bridgend.
- ^ "Democracy and elections". Bridgend County Borough Council. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Mid-Year Population Estimates, UK, June 2022". Office for National Statistics. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ "How life has changed in Bridgend: Census 2021". Office for National Statistics. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.