Ceredigion (UK Parliament constituency) known as Ceredigion and Pembroke North. The constituency name was shortened to Ceredigion for the 1997 as it reverted to its former borders, having lost the part of North Pembrokeshire in boundary changes. Mark Williams, first elected in 2005, was the first non-Welsh speaking Member of Parliament elected to represent the constituency since Bowen Rowlands (MP from 1886 until 1892, who declared at a meeting in Aberystwyth when adopted as candidate that he could not speak Welsh). At the 2010 general election, he received a massive increase in his vote, polling over 50% of the votes cast and raising his
Silian, Ceredigion the county, one councillor at the planning meeting was moved to declare "we are in danger of turning all of Ceredigion into a giant wind farm." Silian is also the name of the parish, which takes its name from Saint Sulien, to whom the village church is consecrated. Bethel Chapel was built in Silian in 1654, and renovated in 1952. Julian Cayo-Evans, the Welsh nationalist and leader of the Free Wales Army, was born in Silian in 1937. Silian Halt was on the Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway, opening in 1911 and closing to passengers in 1951. A