List of places in Cardiff

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:

Communities

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:

Civic Centre

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

• Cardiff University
• National Museum and Gallery of Wales
• Cardiff City Hall
• Crown Buildings
• Cardiff Crown Court
• Temple of Peace

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:

• Red Dragon Centre
• Mermaid Quay
• Wales Millennium Centre
• Senedd
• Techniquest
• The Coal Exchange
• St David's Hotel & Spa
• Cardiff Bay Wetlands Reserve

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.

• Cardiff International Pool
• Cardiff International White Water
• Cardiff Arena
• Cardiff Bay Retail Park

Buildings

Covered markets and shopping centres

Leisure centres

Libraries

Police stations

Historical

Communities that no longer exist

• Crockherbtown
• Newtown
• Temperance Town
• Tredegarville

Notable buildings that no longer exist

Geographical

Rivers and waterways

• River Taff
• River Ely
• Rhymney River
• Roath Park Lake

Woods

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

Bridges

Weirs

• Blackweir
• Llandaff weir
• Radyr Weir

Canals

• Dock Feeder Canal
• Glamorganshire Canal
• Melingriffith Feeder Canal (Whitchurch)

Educational establishments

Higher Education

• Cardiff University
• Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly UWIC)
• University of South Wales (formerly University of Glamorgan and University of Wales, Newport)
• Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Further Education

• Cardiff and Vale College
• St David's Catholic College

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

• Fitzalan High School
• Lansdowne Primary School
• Radnor Primary School
• Ysgol Gymraeg Pwll Coch
• Ysgol Gymraeg Treganna
• Severn Infant School
• Severn Junior School

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

• Cardiff High School
• Lakeside Primary School
• Rhydypenau Primary School

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

• Cantonian High School
• Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School
• Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr
• Fairwater Primary School
• Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary School
• Pentrebane Primary School
• Peter Lea Primary School
• Ysgol Gymraeg Coed-Y-Gof

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

• Corpus Christi Roman Catholic High School
• Llysfaen Primary School

Llandaff

• Bishop of Llandaff Church in Wales High School
• Llandaff Church in Wales Primary School
• Ysgol Pencae
• Danescourt Infant School
• Danescourt Junior School

Llandaff North

• Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf
• Meadowbank School
• Hawthorn Infant School
• Hawthorn Junior School

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

• St Teilo's Church in Wales High School
• Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern
• Ty Gwyn School
• Marlborough Infant School
• Marlborough Junior School

Radyr & Morganstown

• Radyr Comprehensive School
• Bryn Deri Primary School
• Radyr Primary School

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

• Eastern High School, Cardiff
• St Illtyd's Catholic High School
• Greenway Primary School
• Rumney Primary School

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

• Willows High School

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

• Whitchurch High School
• Eglwys Newydd Primary School
• Eglwys Wen Primary School
• Ysgol Gymraeg Melin Gruffydd

Parks

Archaeological sites

• Cardiff Castle
• Castell Coch
• Morganstown Motte
• The Twmpath (Rhiwbina)
• The Priory (Bute park)
• The Friary (foundations removed to build the Capital Tower)

Retail parks

Transport

Public transport hubs

• Cardiff Central railway station
• Cardiff Queen Street railway station
• Cardiff Central bus station
• Radyr railway station
• Dumfries Place (bus interchange)
• Greyfriars Road (bus interchange)

Major roads

• A4055 road
• A470 road
• A48 road
• A48(M) motorway
• M4 motorway
• A4232 road

Railway lines

Railway stations

Cycle routes

• Taff Trail
• Ely Trail
• Rhymney Trail
• Lôn Las Cymru (National Cycle Network: Route 8)
• National Cycle Network: Route 88

Walking routes

• Cardiff Centenary Walk

Shipping

• Cardiff Bay (leisure boats and local ferries)
• Penarth Marina

Airports

• Cardiff Heliport

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

See also

• List of cultural venues in Cardiff
• List of places in Wales

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.
4. ↑ "CORPORATION BATHS, GUILDFORD CRESCENT, CARDIFF". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2014. 
5. ↑ BBC News 184 tobacco jobs go at city plant 27 September 2007 (viewed 2011-10-09)
6. ↑ The City Parish of St John webpages THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CARDIFF CITY PARISH page undated (viewed 2011-10-09)
7. ↑ Jones, Bryan "Canton" The Chalfont Publishing Company (1995), p.111
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Shop in Cardiff". Cardiff & Co. Retrieved 2010-02-19. 

External links

• Map of places in Cardiff compiled from this list

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