Community (Wales) Most, but not all, communities are administered by Community councils, which are equivalent to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate. Welsh community councils may call themselves town councils unilaterally and may have city status granted by the Crown. In Wales, all town councils are community councils. There are now three communities with city status: Bangor, St Asaph and St Davids. The Chair of a town council or city council will usually have the title Mayor (Welsh: "maer"). However, not every community has a council. In communities with populations too small to sustain a
City, Vale of Glamorgan City, Vale of Glamorgan City is a small village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. It is quite near to the town of Cowbridge. The village has never held the status of a city and "City" is not a recognisable Welsh word, so its origin is unclear. There is local speculation that the name came from an Anglicisation of "Saith Tŷ", which is Welsh for "Seven Houses". There is another place in Wales called City, in Montgomeryshire, as well as City Dulas in Anglesey. The village has no shops. It used to have a pub called the City