Bridgend Coonty Burgh

Bridgend County Borough
Bwrdeisdref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr

Geography
Area - Total - % Watter	Ranked 17th 246 km² ? %
Admin HQ	Bridgend
ISO 3166-2	GB-BGE
ONS code	00PB
Demographics
Population: - (2021) - Densitie	Ranked Ranked / km²
Ethnicity	98.4% White.
Welsh leid - Ony skills	Ranked 14t 19.9%
Politics
Control	Labour
MPs	Huw Irranca-Davies Madeleine Moon
AMs	Carwyn Jones (Bridgend Constituency) Janice Gregory (Ogmore Constituency) Sooth Wales Wast (Regional)
MEPs	Wales

Bridgend (Welsh: Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is a coonty burgh in the historic coonty o Glamorgan, sooth Wales. The coonty borough haes a total population o 130,000 fowk, an contains the settlements o Bridgend, after which it is named, Maesteg, an the seaside toun o Porthcawl. Its member o the Naitional Assembly for Wales is Carwyn Jones, the First Meenister o Wales, an its Member o Parliament is Madeleine Moon.

The coonty burgh lees at the geographical hert o sooth Wales. Its land aurie o 285 square kilometres stretches 20 km frae east tae wast an occupees the Llynfi, Garw an Ogmore valleys. The lairgest toun is Bridgend (pop: 39,773), follaeed bi Maesteg (pop: 20,700) an seaside resort o Porthcawl (pop: 19,238).

It is based aroond the Ogmore River an its tributaries, although the Ewenny an Ogwr Fach rivers are considered the border wi the Vale o Glamorgan for hintle o their length.

It wis formit on 1 Aprile 1996 unner the Local Govrenment (Wales) Act 1994. It includes aw o the umwhile Ogwr borough apairt frae the communities o Wick, St Bride's Major an Ewenny, whilk went tae Vale o Glamorgan.

Govrenment

The region is govrened bi Bridgend County Borough Council. It is currently in the control o the Labour pairty.

Schuils

There are 9 seicontary schuils in Bridgend Coonty Burgh:

• Porthcawl Comprehensive School, Porthcawl
• Archbishop McGrath Catholic School, Brackla, Bridgend
• Bryntirion Comprehensive School, Cefn Glas, Bridgend
• Brynteg Comprehensive School, Bridgend
• Pencoed Comprehensive School, Pencoed
• Maesteg Comprehensive School, Maesteg
• Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen, Tondu
• Cynffig Comprehensive School, Kenfig Hill
• Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Llangynwyd, Llangynwyd

Notable fowk

See Category:Fowk frae Bridgend an Category:Fowk frae Bridgend coonty burgh

See an aw

• List o places in Bridgend Coonty Burgh

Freemit airtins

• Bridgend Coonty Burgh at Curlie
• Bridgend County Borough Council