Editing Lampeter (section)

===Administrative history===
Lampeter was an [[ancient parish]], which included rural areas as well as the town itself.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lampeter Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10199797 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> The town was administered as a [[Ancient borough|borough]] from at least the time of [[Edward II of England|Edward II]] (reigned 1307–1327).<ref name=Kelly>{{cite book |title=Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales |date=1895 |page=352 |url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/337714/rec/7 |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> A [[Municipal borough#Municipal Corporations Act 1835|government survey of boroughs in 1835]] found that the borough corporation had very few powers. The borough was therefore [[Unreformed boroughs in England and Wales 1835–1886|left unreformed]] when the [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835]] reformed most ancient boroughs across the country into [[municipal borough]]s.<ref>{{cite book |title=First Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: Part 1 |date=1835 |page=283 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/First_Report_of_the_Commissioners_Appoin/7pNRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA283&printsec=frontcover |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref>

The old corporation continued to operate, but was ineligible to take on any further functions. In order to provide more modern forms of local government, a [[Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858|local government district]] was created in 1866 with an elected local board.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Municipal Corporations not subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts |date=1880 |page=54 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Report_of_the_Commissioners_Appointed_to/iHMvAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA54&printsec=frontcover |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23108|page=2704|date=1866}}</ref> The local board and old borough corporation then existed alongside each other until 1884, when the town was issued a new [[municipal charter]] formally incorporating it as a municipal borough. The reformed borough council took on the functions of the abolished local board.<ref name=Kelly/> The [[Local Government Act 1894]] directed that parishes were no longer allowed to straddle borough boundaries, and so the parts of Lampeter parish outside the borough became a separate parish called Lampeter Rural.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cardiganshire: Diagram showing administrative boundaries, 1971 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/241241647 |website=National Library of Scotland |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> Lampeter Rural was abolished in 1987 and divided between several neighbouring communities.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Langston |first1=Brett |title=Cardiganshire Central Registration District |url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/cardiganshire%20central.html |website=UKBMD |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref>

The borough of Lampeter was abolished in 1974 under the [[Local Government Act 1972]]. A community called Lampeter was created instead, covering the area of the abolished borough. District-level functions passed to [[Ceredigion District Council]], which was in turn replaced in 1996 by Ceredigion County Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government Act 1972|year=1972|chapter=70|accessdate=6 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=act|act=Local Government (Wales) Act 1994|year=1994|chapter=19|accessdate=9 October 2022}}</ref>