 However, the province is not completely equal to Wales, as the Archdiocese of Cardiff also covers Herefordshire, in England.The Sabbatarian temperance movement was strong among the Welsh in the Victorian period and the early twentieth century, the sale of alcohol being prohibited on Sundays in Wales by the "Sunday Closing Act" of 1881 – the first legislation specifically issued for Wales since the Middle Ages.From the early 1960s, local council areas were permitted to hold referendums every seven years to determine whether they should be "wet" or "dry" on Sundays