Radyr
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Radyr is an outer suburb of the city of Cardiff, Wales. The Radyr district is located about six miles north of the centre of Cardiff. The writer Roald Dahl lived in the area as a boy. Today Radyr is expanding rapidly as people try to find homes in Cardiff. It lies in the Cardiff West constituency.
At the turn of the 20th century Radyr was home to the busiest railway junction on the globe, where coal trains were either transferred onto the Taff Vale line to Cardiff Docks, or the Penarth district line, to the docks located at Penarth, several miles southwest of Cardiff city centre. The area was also home to an extensive railway marshalling yard, which is now closed and the sidings of which have been lifted. It remained a relatively undeveloped area until the 1970s. At this point the area underwent rapid expansion, which has continued to this day, and Radyr now has a population well in excess of 10,000.
The historic parish church, Saint John the Baptist, is located in the Danescourt estate (in Llandaff).
Radyr Comprehensive School is a popular local comprehensive school with over 1,400 pupils from across west Cardiff.[citation needed] The school also has a successful Jazz Band (Radyr Big Band).
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[edit] Transport
Radyr's railway station is still a major regional one, with in excess of 200 trains calling at the station every weekday. From the station, trains run southbound to Cardiff Central, either along the Valley Line or via the City Line with some continuing on the Vale of Glamorgan Line. Services operate northbound to either Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare or Treherbert via Pontypridd.
Cardiff Bus services 33, 33A and 33B and Stagecoach's 122 operate to Cardiff central bus station via Danescourt, Fairwater and Canton.
The main road running south out of Radyr is Heol Isaf, leading onto Llantrisant Road, connecting the area with Danescourt and Fairwater to the south and Llantrisant and M4 J34 to the north.
[edit] Governance
The electoral ward of Radyr and Morganstown falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West. It is bounded by the wards of Whitchurch & Tongwynlais to the northeast; Llandaff and Llandaff North to the southeast; Creigiau & St. Fagans to the southwest; and Pentyrch to the northwest.
At a local level, Radyr is administered by Radyr & Morganstown Community Council, which effectively acts as a subsidiary of Cardiff County Council and is funded by an addition to the Council Tax bill paid by local residents. The council is run by eleven elected councillors from three separate wards within the parish - Radyr North (4 seats), Radyr South (3 seats) and Morganstown (4 seats).
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[edit] External links
- Radyr & Morganstown Community Council
- Radyr Big Band
- Radyr Baptist Church
- Scouting in Radyr website
- Radyr and Morganstown Community website.
- Photos of Radyr railway junction, past and present
- Radyr and Morganstown Community Band
- Radyr Rangers FC
- Radyr Comprehensive School
- www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Radyr and surrounding area
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