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Always thought this, Caerphilly borough is a bit of a strange one with Caerphilly and Rhymney (granted in the same valley but must be near 20 miles of minor roads away) and then areas like Newbridge and Crumlin as well.
There’s a stretch on the heads of the valleys road where within about half an hour or so you must pass through 5 Welsh local authority areas (whilst skirting another one).
I think Caerphilly borough was one that was cobbled together, largely out of the old Rhymney and Islwyn district councils. They don't have much in common with each other so it's a contrivance
Caerphilly town has its natural hinterland up to about as far north as Hengoed and everything east or west is quite out of the area.
The weird thing now is that Caerphilly is conveniently regarded as Gwent for the purposes of public services (eg Police and Health) while historically it's always been in Glamorgan. It's likely that the reason for this is that Islwyn borough (always been in Gwent) has been bolted on to it.
Mid-Glamorgan always was and always will be 👍
I popped up to see my mum in Barry recently, got out of the van to get some fuel, popped my mask on ( as 99% people do down here ) and i then realised i was the only one with a mask on
when i leave the house its " Keys, phone, hand gel and mask ", its a strange new world
i have 2 cards in the back of my phone case, but dont even use them as just use apple pay now
has contact less payment caught up in the US yet, i was very surprised 2 years ago, hardly anywhere did contact less payments, infact even entering a PIN was rare, they were still using the terminal you had to sign your name on
I didn't realise the old monmouthshire came that far across, but yeah rumney, llanrumney and St mellons would all be in a different county.
Would make sense to move that border a bit closer to newport if the historic monmouthshire / gwent were ever resurrected, past marshfield even.
I wonder what the advantages / disadvantages are of having fewer large counties or many small ones?