Ceredigion Archives
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Ceredigion Archives (Welsh: Archifdy Ceredigion) is a regional archive service and the county record office for Ceredigion County Council.[1] Located since 2012[2] in Aberystwyth Town Hall, the archive collects, curates, preserves and gives access to records relating to the county and its administration.
The archives is open to members of the public for research, family history, local history, university degree work, academic research, and research for business purposes.
The Ceredigion County Archives was established in 1974 as the third record office for Dyfed and was originally known as Cardiganshire Area Record Office.[3] It was renamed and re-launched as Ceredigion Archives in 1996.[4] Until 2012 the Archive was located in the Grade II listed Queen's Hotel building on Aberystwyth Promanade but when the council sold that building, a new purpose built archive complex was built at the Old Town Hall, which also houses the town Library.[2] In 2019 the Archives secured funding from the Welsh Government to purchase the nearby old lifeboat station and convert it into an archival storage facility.[5]
