Place:Ogwen Rural, Caernarvonshire, Wales

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Ogwen Rural District was located in the administrative county of Caernarvonshire in Wales from 1894 to 1974.

The district was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the former Bangor Rural Sanitary District in Caernarvonshire. The rest of the sanitary district in Anglesey (the county on the Isle of Anglesey), formed Aethwy Rural District. The district on the mainland was named after the River Ogwen and Ogwen Valley.

In 1894 the urban district of Bethesda was formed from part of Llanllechid parish in Ogwen Rural District. The district lost further territory under a County Review Order in 1934: parts of Llandygai and Llanlechid were transferred to Capel Curig parish in Nant Conwy Rural District, and parts of Llandygai and Pentir were included in an extension of the boundaries of the Municipal Borough of Bangor.

The rural district was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, with its area becoming part of the Borough of Arfon, one of five districts of the new county of Gwynedd.

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