Official Name: | Menai |
Country: | Wales |
Type: | Electoral ward |
Population: | 2,196 |
Population Ref: | (2011 census) |
Coordinates: | 53.151°N -4.26°W |
Community Wales: | Caernarfon |
Post Town: | CAERNARFON |
Postcode Area: | LL |
Postcode District: | LL55 |
Dial Code: | 01286 |
Constituency Westminster: | Arfon |
Unitary Wales: | Gwynedd |
Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Arfon |
Councillors: | 1 (County) 4 (Town Council) |
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Menai is the name of an electoral ward in the town of Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales. As the name suggests, it borders the Menai Strait. The ward elects councillors to the town council and Gwynedd Council.
The Menai ward covers the northwest part of the community, including Caernarfon town centre north of the High Street. It is bordered to the east by the B4366 Bethel Road. The Caernarfon ward of Cadnant lies to the east.[1]
The ward population, according to the 2011 Census, was 2,196.[2]
Menai is an electoral ward to Caernarfon Town Council electing four of the seventeen town councillors.[3]
Menai (Caernarfon) was a ward to Arfon Borough Council (abolished 1996), electing two councillors at the 1987 and 1991 elections.[4]
Menai (Caernarfon) has been an electoral ward to Gwynedd Council since 1995, electing two county councillors at the 1995 and 1999 elections.[5] From the 2004 elections the representation reduced to one county councillor.[6]