List of places in Cardiff

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This is a listing of places in Cardiff, county and capital city of Wales.

Administrative divisions

Electoral wards

This is a list of electoral wards covered by Cardiff City Council:

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Communities

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City Centre

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Main article: Cardiff city centre

The city centre is Cardiff's main shopping area, the sixth largest in the UK. It is also the location of historical and cultural attractions such as:

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Civic Centre

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Main article: Cathays Park

The Civic Centre crafted out of white Portland stone and location of much of:

Cardiff Bay

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Main article: Cardiff Bay

Formerly called Tiger Bay, this was where the world's first million-pound cheque was signed and was the centre of the global coal industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1980s the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was set up to redevelop the area and has since been transformed into a high profile area of living, shopping, dining and culture attractions, such as:

Cardiff International Sports Village

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Main article: Cardiff International Sports Village

The International Sports Village is a work in progress in Cardiff, with additional sporting and retail sites being added every so often.

Buildings

Covered markets and shopping centres

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Main article: List of shopping arcades in Cardiff

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Leisure centres

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Libraries

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Police stations

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  • Canton police station
  • Cardiff Bay police station (area headquarters)
  • Cardiff Central police station
  • Ely police station
  • Fairwater police station
  • Llanedeyrn police station
  • Llanishen police station
  • Radyr police station
  • Roath police station
  • Rumney police station
  • Whitchurch police station

Historical

Communities that no longer exist

Notable buildings that no longer exist

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Geographical

Rivers and waterways

Rivers

Canals

Weirs

Lakes and reservoirs

Woods

  • Plymouth woods
  • Leckwith woods
  • Long woods (Forest farm)

Educational establishments

Higher Education

Further Education

Primary and Secondary Education

Adamsdown

  • Adamsdown Primary School
  • Stacey Primary School
  • Tredegarville Primary School

Birchgrove

  • Birchgrove Primary School

Butetown

  • Mount Stuart Primary School
  • St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • St Mary The Virgin Church in Wales Primary School

Caerau

  • Glyn Derw High School
  • Woodlands High School
  • Riverbank School
  • Millbank Primary School
  • Trelai Primary School
  • Caerau Infant School
  • Cwrt-Yr-Ala Junior School

Canton

Cathays

  • Cathays High School
  • Gladstone Primary School
  • Cardiff Muslim Primary School
  • St Monica's Church in Wales Primary School

Coryton

  • Coryton Primary School

Creigiau

  • Cregiau Primary School

Cyncoed

Ely

  • Michaelston Community College (Formerly Glan Ely High School)
  • Herbert Thompson Primary School
  • St Fagan's Church in Wales Primary School
  • St Francis Roman Catholic Primary School
  • Hywel Dda Infant School
  • Hywel Dda Junior School
  • Windsor Clive Infant School
  • Windsor Clive Junior School

Fairwater

Gabalfa

  • Allensbank Primary School
  • Gabalfa Primary School
  • Ysgol Mynydd Bychan
  • St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • St Monica's Church in Wales Primary School

Grangetown

  • Grangetown Primary School
  • Ninian Park Primary School
  • St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • St Paul's Church in Wales Primary School

Heath

  • Ton-Yr-Ywen Primary School

Lisvane

Llandaff

Llandaff North

Llanederyn

  • Llanederyn High School
  • Llanederyn Primary School

Llanishen

  • Llanishen High School
  • Cefn Onn Primary School
  • Christ the King Roman Catholic Primary School
  • Coed Glas Primary School
  • Ysgol Y Wern
  • The Court School

Llanrumney

  • Llanrumney High School
  • Bryn Hafod Primary School
  • Glan-yr-Afon Primary School
  • Pen-y-Bryn Primary School
  • St Cadoc's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • St Mellon's Church in Wales Primary School
  • Ysgol Bro Eirwg

Pentwyn

  • All Saints Primary School
  • Bryn Celyn Primary School
  • The Hollies School
  • Springwood Primary School
  • St Bernadette's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • St David's Church in Wales Primary School
  • St Peter Evan's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • Ysgol Y Berllan Deg
  • Glyncoed Infant & Nursery School
  • Glyncoed Junior School
  • St Philip Evans Roman Catholic Primary School

Pentyrch

  • Pentyrch Primary School
  • Ysgol Gynradd Gwaelod Y Garth Primary School

Penylan

Radyr & Morganstown

Rhiwbina

  • Greenhill School
  • Llanishen Fach Primary School
  • Rhiwbeina Primary School
  • Greenhill School

Riverside

  • Kitchener Primary School
  • St Mary's Catholic Primary School

Roath

  • Albany Primary School
  • St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • Taibah Muslim Primary School
  • St Anne's Church in Wales Infant School

Rumney

Splott

  • Baden Powell Primary School
  • Moorland Primary School
  • St Alban's Roman Catholic Primary School
  • Ysgol Glan Morfa

Thornhill

  • Thornhill Primary School

Tongwynlais

  • Tongwynlais Primary School

Tremorfa

Trowbridge

  • Bishop Childs Church in Wales Primary School
  • Meadowlane Primary School
  • Oakfield Primary School
  • St John Lloyd Roman Catholic Primary School
  • Willowbrook Primary School
  • Trowbridge Primary School

Whitchurch

Parks

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  • Adamsdown community gardens
  • Africa Gardens
  • Bute Park
  • Caedelyn Park
  • Cathays Park
  • Cefn Onn Country Park
  • Coopers Field
  • Despenser Gardens (Riverside)
  • Fairwater Park
  • Forest Farm and Glamorganshire Canal
  • Gorsedd Gardens
  • Grange Gardens
  • Grangemoor Park
  • Hamadryad Park
  • Hailey Park (Llandaff North)
  • Heath Park
  • Hill Snook Park
  • Insole Court
  • Llandaff Fields
  • Llanishen Park
  • Maitland Park
  • Nant Fawr Corridor
  • Pontcanna Fields
  • Plasnewydd Gardens
  • Roath Park
  • Sevenoaks Park (Grangetown)
  • Sophia Gardens
  • Splott Park
  • Thompson's Park
  • Trelai Park
  • Tremorfa Park
  • Victoria Park
  • Waterloo Gardens
  • Wern Goch Park
  • Whitchurch Common

Archaeological sites

Retail parks

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Cardiff Lifestyle Shopping Park, Llanishen
Avenue Retail Park, Rumney
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Capital Retail Park, Leckwith

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Transport

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Main article: Transport in Cardiff

Public transport hubs

Major roads

Railway lines

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Railway stations

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Cycle routes

Walking routes

Bridges

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  • A4055 Bridge (River Ely)
  • A48 Bridge (River Taff)
  • Brains Bridge (railway, Grangetown)
  • Cardiff Bridge (River Taff) - also known as Canton Bridge
  • Clarence Bridge (River Taff)
  • Ely Bridge
  • Hailey Bridge
  • (Old) Leckwith Bridge (River Ely)
  • Llandaff Bridge (River Taff)
  • Lowther Road Bridge (railway)
  • Millennium Footbridge (River Taff)
  • M4 bridge (River Taff)
  • Penarth Road Bridge (River Taff)
  • Pont-y-werin Bridge/'The People's Bridge' (foot/cycle, River Ely)
  • Rumney River bridge (road)
  • Virgil Street bridge (railway, Grangetown)
  • White bridge (footbridge, Blackweir)

Shipping

Airports

(Cardiff International Airport and the military base RAF St Athan are both located in the neighbouring Vale of Glamorgan)

See also

References

  1. ↑ thefreelibrary.com, article from South Wales Echo Avana to close city bakery TOMORROW... 17 June 2003 (viewed 2011-10-09)
  2. ↑ R.C.A.H.M.W. website ELY PAPER MILLS;ELY PAPER WORKS, ELY, CARDIFF dated 10 June 2010 (viewed 2011-10-09)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Blake, A. Cardiff’s great Victorian architecture is 'under threat’ South Wales Echo, 30 October 2010. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
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  7. ↑ The City Parish of St John webpages THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CARDIFF CITY PARISH page undated (viewed 2011-10-09)
  8. ↑ Jones, Bryan "Canton" The Chalfont Publishing Company (1995), p.111
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