Bridgend
| Bridgend County Borough | |
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| Administrative headquarters | Bridgend (city) |
| surface | 246 km² |
| Residents | 139,178 (2011) |
| Welsh speakers | 19.9% |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-BGE |
| ONS code | 00PB |
| Website | www.bridgend.gov.uk |
Bridgend ( Welsh : Pen-y-Bont ar Ogwr ) is a medium-sized town with 49,404 inhabitants on the south coast of Wales .
The city is the administrative seat of the homonymous community Bridgend County Borough with 144,300 inhabitants. In addition to the city of Bridgend, the municipality also includes the small towns of Maesteg and Porthcawl , each with around 20,000 inhabitants, and more than a dozen villages.
In 1974 the District Ogwr was formed within the then newly formed administrative county of West Glamorgan . As part of the introduction of one-tier local government in Wales, the Principal Area Bridgend with the status of a County Borough was formed from most of the District Ogwr on April 1, 1996 . As part of the one-tier local government established with the administrative reform, all administrative tasks are handled by the Bridgend Borough Council .
Town twinning
- Langenau , Baden-Württemberg , Germany
- Villenave-d'Ornon , Nouvelle-Aquitaine , France
National awareness
Bridgend gained nationwide notoriety because Paul Potts had worked as a seller of mobile phones in the city until he in 2007 in the British talent show Britain's Got Talent as a tenor discovered and became internationally famous. The band " Bullet for My Valentine " also comes from there.
Bridgend suffered an unusually high number of suicides in 2007, mostly committed by young people. From February 2007 to February 2008, 17 young people committed suicide.
sons and daughters of the town
- John Lloyd (born 1943), rugby player and coach
- Ruth Jones (* 1966), actress and screenwriter
- Gareth Cooper (born 1979), rugby player
- Gareth Williams (born 1979), rugby player
- Ryan Day (born 1980), snooker player
as well as the music groups:
- Bullet for My Valentine , Welsh metal band
- Funeral for a Friend , Welsh rock band
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official population figures 2011 ( MS Excel ; 291 kB)
- ↑ Weird Suicide Series Shakes Great Britain , Spiegel Online , February 22, 2008
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 40 " N , 3 ° 34 ′ 30" W.