page_title: List of county exclaves in England and Wales 1844–1974
section_title: Caernarvonshire
hierarchical_section_title: List of county exclaves in England and Wales 1844–1974 / Areas transferred / Caernarvonshire
caption_attribution_description: English: A large exclave of Caernarvonshire contained sub-exclaves of Denbighshire one of which contained a sub-sub-exclave of Caernarvonshire.
context_page_description: Until 1844, many of the counties in England and Wales had exclaves entirely surrounded by other counties. Under the Counties Act 1844, many of these exclaves were absorbed by the counties within which they were located. The process was based on a schedule attached to the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, drawn up by a boundary commission headed by the surveyor Thomas Drummond.
  Nevertheless, a number of exclaves remained; these were dealt with in a piecemeal manner over a period of decades.
  The Local Government Act 1894 empowered the county councils of administrative counties to exchange areas in order to make a more effective local government area. As the Local Government Act 1888 had redefined the lieutenancy and shrievalty to be based on administrative counties, the changes also affected them as well as judicial boundaries. Accordingly, many anomalies in county boundaries were removed in the next three years, including the elimination of outlying areas of Derbyshire and Huntingdonshire.
  The last major transfer of areas was in 1931, when the boundaries of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire were realigned.
context_section_description: The county had two exclaves after 1844 (pre-1844 total 2, legal 1; post-1844 total 2, legal 1):
  Llysfaen and Eirias (2). The county  had a large (2711.4 acres or 1097 ha) semi-exclave consisting of the parishes of Llysfaen and Eirias and including the town of Old Colwyn, which was transferred to the surrounding county of Denbighshire and the urban district of Colwyn Bay in 1923. In turn it surrounded a counter-semi-exclave of Denbighshire including the east part of Old Colwyn, which had very complex borders. This counter-semi-exclave in turn contained a counter-counter-semi-exclave of Caernarvonshire, that of "Coed-coch Cottage" covering 1.6 acres (0.65 ha).
caption: Nested exclaves of Caernarvonshire (pink) and Denbighshire. (Historical County Borders Project)
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