page_title: Aberystwyth Town Council
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Aberystwyth Town Council / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the wards which make up Aberystwyth Town Council, also showing neighbouring community councils.
context_page_description: Aberystwyth Town Council is the community council that governs the ancient borough, town and community of Aberystwyth. For electoral purposes, it is divided into five electoral divisions.
context_section_description: The council appoints a chairman as its presiding officer who is then known as the Mayor of Aberystwyth. The Town Council is now a statutory body, but it also holds the town's Borough Charter in trust, granted by King Edward I on 28 December 1277 and confirmed by successive monarchs, resulting in the members also being charter trustees.  Since the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 came into force, Aberystwyth's status as a borough has been wholly ceremonial.  The Local Government Act 1972 (in force from 1 April 1974) prevents the town council being known in name as a borough council as previously, although the town councillors as charter trustees can still, for example, take part in all of the ceremonial activities (wearing civic outfits), elect mayors (who can wear the chain of office) and organise markets (according to the original royal charter). The current Mayor of Aberystwyth is Charlie Kingsbury; the Deputy Mayor for 2020-21 is Alun Williams.
  Aberystwyth town council comprises five wards - Bronglais, Central, North, Penparcau and Rheidol - electing between three and five town councillors each.
  Clockwise, from the north, it borders the communities of Tirymynach, Faenor, Llanbadarn Fawr and Llanfarian.
caption: Aberystwyth council wards.
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