Clwyd County Council's coat of arms was granted in December 1974.

Clwyd County Council and its districts were abolished by the Local Government ( Wales ) Act 1994, and local government would be replaced by the four unitary authorities of Flintshire, Wrexham County Borough, Denbighshire, and parts of Conwy ( along with some smaller communities moving to Powys ).

Clwyd County Council and its six districts ceased operations at midnight on 1 April 1996, and local government was immediately transferred to the new principal areas of Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham.

The Preserved County of Clwyd also came into effect as of that date.

* Clwyd County Darts Association

* Clwyd Pension Fund ( Local Government pension scheme inherited from Clwyd County Council, now providing pension schemes for Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire unitary authorities and former districts ).

In 1994 Jones was appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the then new Intelligence and Security Committee, on which he served until 2001 ; when the Committee was dissolved at that year's general election, Jones retired from the House of Commons and was made a life peer with the title Baron Jones, of Deeside in the County of Clwyd, as was Dale Campbell-Savours, who had served on the Committee since 1997.

Baron Clwyd, of Abergele in the County of Denbigh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It is the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council, and was the county town of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996.

* T M Haydn Rees CBE DL, County Clerk, Flintshire County Council 1967-73 and Chief Executive, Clwyd County Council 1974-77 ; Chairman, Welsh Water Authority 1977-82.

Three community radio stations broadcast on FM — Calon FM serving Wrexham County Borough & parts of southern Flintshire, Tudno FM broadcasting to Llandudno & surrounding areas and Point FM serving Rhyl, parts of the Vale of Clwyd and eastern areas of Conwy county.

Clwyd County Council provided the company with a start-up grant of £ 10, 000 on the grounds that the service would improve communications between North East Wales and Cardiff.

* From Denbighshire County: Efenechtyd, Llanarmon-yn-Ial / Llandegla, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd / Llangynhafal, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd / Gwyddelwern, Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, Ruthin.

The complex forms part of the County Civic Centre at Mold ( Yr Wyddgrug ), being immediately adjacent to the Shire Hall ( the administrative offices of the former administrative county of Clwyd, now the offices of the Flintshire County Council ).

It was built at the instigation of the former Flintshire County Council before it was abolished in the local government reorganisation of 1974 and replaced by Clwyd County Council, and the complex was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976.

It is also the name of a ward of the County Borough of Wrexham Until 1974 the valley was part of the traditional county of Denbighshire ; then it became part of the short-lived county of Clwyd, which was abolished in 1996.

A year later in 1984, Evans died and Arbuthnot fought the resulting by-election, but he was again defeated by the Labour candidate, Ann Clwyd.

Without doubt, Nomads ’ most successful season was 1980 – 81 when they won seven trophies including the Welsh Intermediate Cup, beating Newport YMCA in the final, and the Clwyd League without losing a game.

Finishing 8th in the new national competition in 1992 – 93 was a fine achievement after a poor start as was Nomads ’ appearance in the semi-final of the Welsh Cup despite the disappointment of a 2 – 1 aggregate defeat against Clwyd rivals Rhyl.

In their final proposals the part of the local government area of Caerphilly which had been in Mid Glamorgan was to be part of Gwent and the part of the local government area of Conwy which had been in Gwynedd was to be part of Clwyd.

The administrative county of Flint was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972 on Monday 1 April 1974, becoming part of the new county of Clwyd.

The administrative county was abolished in 1974, with most of its territory becoming part of the new districts of Colwyn, Wrexham Maelor and Glyndŵr in Clwyd.

The village is in the county borough of Wrexham ; until 1974 it was in the exclave of Flintshire traditionally known as the Maelor Saesneg, and from 1974-1996 was in the county of Clwyd.

The first Welsh medium secondary school was opened in Rhyl in 1956 on Rhuddlan Road and was called Ysgol Glan Clwyd.

This was an enormous feat of engineering, compared even to today's modern standards, and it is still possible to make out the original loops and turns of the Clwyd using satellite imagery.

The former county of Clwyd, consisting of the principal areas of modern-day Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, was named after the river, when it was created as a 2-tier county in 1974.

The 1970 white paper had introduced the name of Clwyd by reference to the River Clwyd and the Clwydian range of hills ; Clwyd was the only new Welsh county which did not take its name from an ancient kingdom.

For second-tier local government purposes, Clwyd was divided into six districts, each being operated by a district or borough council.

In 2003, the borders of Clwyd were changed to cover the remainder of Conwy ( which had previously been part of Gwynedd ), which was part of a Wales-wide re-organisation of the preserved counties, so that boundaries of the preserved counties would contain whole current principal areas only.

From 1979 to 1984, Ann Clwyd was MEP for Mid and West Wales.

Clwyd was a Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 2001 until 2005, and was elected as Chair by 167 to 156 ( beating Tony Lloyd ) on 24 May 2005.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, the use of Denbighshire for local government and ceremonial purposes ended on 1 April 1974, with the creation of the new county of Clwyd.

Clwyd () is a preserved county of Wales, situated in the north-east, bordering England with Cheshire to its east, Shropshire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Gwynedd to its immediate west and Powys to the south.

Some minor changes having been made to the existing county boundaries due to special local factors, the Local Government Act 1972 duly created Clwyd as a merger of Flintshire with most of Denbighshire, along with the Edeyrnion Rural District from Merionethshire.

The 2003 arrangement brings towns such as Llandudno, Conwy and Betws y Coed into the preserved county of Clwyd.

Clwyd consists of the whole of the historic county of Flintshire, and most of Denbighshire.

Clwyd as a Preserved counties of Wales | preserved county since 2003.

For ceremonial and electoral boundary purposes it was transferred from the preserved county of Gwynedd to that of Clwyd in 2003.

In 1974, local government in Wales was reorganised, and both halves of the Maelor were included in Wrexham Maelor, one of six districts in the new county of Clwyd.

The Borough of Colwyn was one of six districts of the county of Clwyd, north-east Wales, from 1974 to 1996.

* the preserved county of Clwyd ( comprising Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham )

Currently, there is an electoral region for the National Assembly for Wales with the name ( used, in parallel with the smaller constituencies, to elect top-up members under the Additional Member System ), which covers the north-east of Wales ( specifically the entire area of the former pre-1996 county of Clwyd ) as well as the Northern-most coastal areas of north-western Wales ; the rest of North Wales is covered by Mid and West Wales.

Alyn and Deeside () was one of six districts of the county of Clwyd, north-east Wales from 1974 to 1996.