Preserved county

Welsh Preserved Counties. Click on any blue name for the article about the county. Note that the boundary between Gwynedd and Clwyd differs from the pre-1996 county boundary.

England

West
Glamorgan

Dyfed

Powys

Clwyd

Gwynedd

Gwent

Mid
Glamorgan

South
Glamorgan

A preserved county is an area of Wales equivalent to a ceremonial county in England. The eight preserved counties are based, with some boundary adjustments, on the counties that existed between 1974 and 1996.