Editing Holyhead (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Neuadd Y Dref Caergybi, Holyhead Town Council (geograph 3662368).jpg|thumb|Holyhead Town Hall]]
There are two tiers of local government covering Holyhead, at [[Community (Wales)|community]] (town) and [[Principal areas of Wales|county]] level: [[Holyhead Town Council]] and [[Isle of Anglesey County Council]]. The town council is based at [[Holyhead Town Hall]] on Newry Street. It comprises sixteen councillors elected from the seven community electoral wards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holyheadtowncouncil.com/councillors |title=Councillors  |publisher=Holyhead Town Council |access-date=5 December 2017 }}</ref>

===Administrative history===
The [[ancient parish]] of Holyhead covered the majority of Holy Island.<ref>{{cite web |title=Holyhead Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10149241/boundary |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref> In 1832 a [[parliamentary borough]] was established covering just the area around the town itself, as a contributory borough to the [[Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency)|Beaumaris Boroughs constituency]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 |date=1832 |page=370 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uq0uAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA370 |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref>

In 1860 a [[Local board of health#Local Government Act 1858|local government district]] was created covering the same area as the parliamentary borough, governed by an elected local board.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22341|page=4883|date=30 December 1859}}</ref> Such local government districts were reconstituted as [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban districts]] under the [[Local Government Act 1894]]. As part of the 1894 reforms, parishes were no long allowed to straddle district boundaries, and so the part of Holyhead parish outside the urban district became a separate parish called 'Holyhead Rural'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Holyhead Urban District Council - Additional Deposit |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/d2b9fe61-ea90-3e5c-9542-9924db05008a |website=JISC Archives Hub |publisher=Anglesey Archives |access-date=31 October 2024}}</ref>

Holyhead Town Hall was completed in 1875 and served as both a public events venue and meeting place for the local board and the urban district council which replaced it.<ref name=nwc>{{cite web|url=https://hdl.handle.net/10107/4514500|title=Opening of the Holyhead Town Hall|publisher= The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser|date=4 September 1875|hdl=10107/4514500 |access-date=22 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=45415|page=7162|date=2 July 1971}}</ref> Holyhead Urban District was abolished in 1974, with its area instead becoming a community. District-level functions passed to [[Isle of Anglesey County Council|Ynys Môn-Isle of Anglesey Borough Council]], which in 1996 was reconstituted as a county council.<ref>[[Local Government Act 1972]]</ref><ref>[[Local Government (Wales) Act 1994]]</ref> The Holyhead Rural parish also became a community in 1974, and was renamed [[Trearddur]] in 1984.