Cowbridge
Cowbridge is a market community in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Cardiff (12 miles west of Cardiff Bridge). Cowbridge is twinned with Clisson in the Loire-Atlantique division in northwestern France. Cowbridge is part of the Cowbridge with Llanblethian area (civil parish) which elects a Town Council. A Cowbridge selecting ward exists for political elections to the Vale of Glamorgan Council. This ward consists of Cowbridge and also Llanblethian however stretches south to Llanfair. The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 6,180.