What is "north wales"

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. Retail, transport and educational infrastructure are centred on Wrexham, Rhyl, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno and Bangor. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales, and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England.

North Wales was traditionally divided into three regions: Upper Gwynedd (or Gwynedd above the Conwy), defined as the area north of the River Dyfi and west of the River Conwy); Lower Gwynedd (or Gwynedd below the Conwy, also known as the Perfeddwlad and defined as the region east of the River Conwy and west of the River Dee); and Ynys Môn (or Anglesey), a large island off the north coast..

The southern boundary is arbitrary and its definition may depend on the use being made of the term. For example, the boundary of North Wales Police differs from the boundary of the North Wales area of the Natural Resources Wales and the North Wales Regional Transport Consortium (Taith). The historic boundary follows the pre 1996 county boundaries of Merionethshire and Denbighshire which in turn closely follows the geographic features of the river Dovey to Aran Fawddwy, then crossing the high moorlands following the watershed until reaching Cadair Berwyn, and then following the river Rhaeadr and river Tanat to the Shropshire border. Montgomeryshire is sometimes referred to as being in north Wales.

Welsh Assembly electoral region

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North Wales shown within Wales

Created
1999

Current representation

Labour

Conservative

Plaid Cymru

UKIP

Constituencies
1. Aberconwy
2. Alyn and Deeside
3. Arfon
4. Clwyd South
5. Clwyd West
6. Delyn
7. Vale of Clwyd
8. Wrexham
9. Ynys Môn

Preserved counties
Clwyd
Gwynedd (part)

North Wales is an electoral region of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of nine constituencies. The region elects thirteen members, nine directly elected constituency members and four additional members. The electoral region was first used in the 1999 Welsh Assembly election, when the Assembly for Wales was created.

Each constituency elects one Assembly Member by the first past the post electoral system, and the region as a whole elects four additional or top-up Assembly Members, to create a degree of proportional representation. The additional member seats are allocated from closed lists by the d'Hondt method, with constituency results being taken into account in the allocation.

North Wales is an unofficial region of Wales, UK.

North Wales may also refer to:

• North Wales (National Assembly for Wales electoral region), a constituency covering much of the Welsh region
• North Wales (European Parliament constituency), a defunct constituency in Wales
• North Wales, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
  • North Wales (SEPTA station)

North Wales was a European Parliament constituency which roughly covered the unofficial region of North Wales, from 1979 until 1999. It was held by the Conservative Party from 1979 until 1989, during which time it was their only seat in Wales.

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

When it was created in Wales in 1979, it consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Conwy, Denbigh, Flint East, Flint West, Merioneth, Montgomery, Wrexham. In 1984, Denbigh, Flint East, Flint West and Merioneth were replaced by Alyn and Deeside, Clwyd North West, Clwyd South West, Delyn and Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, while Anglesey was renamed Ynys Môn and Caernarvon was renamed Caernarfon. In 1994, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy and Montgomery were removed from the seat.

The seat became part of the much larger Wales constituency in 1999.

North Wales is a historic plantation and national historic district located in Fauquier County, Virginia near Warrenton, Virginia. Currently it is a historic district that includes a manor home and farm. A date of significance for the site is 1776. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

The listed area includes work by Arthur Little and other architects and/or builders. It includes Georgian architecture and Colonial Revival architecture in 38 contributing buildings, eight contributing sites and contributing structures.

It's a historic plantation.

The estate on 1,471 acres was sold to former Goldman Sachs partner David B. Ford September 30, 2014 for $21 Million. Ford has acquired other historic properties including the noted record-breaking purchase of Newport, RI Gilded Age mansion "Miramar", by architect Horace Trumbauer, for $17.15 million in 2006.