Radyr, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Radyr, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, on the river Taff, 5 miles NW of Cardiff, with a station on the Taff Vale railway, and a post office under Cardiff; money order office, Tongwynlais; telegraph office, at the railway station. The parish includes Morgan's Town. Acreage, 1630; population, 610. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Radyr Court was the seat of the Matthews family, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, Lord Windsor. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1857. There are a school church and a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Cardiff | 1837 - 1934 |
Registration district | East Glamorgan | 1935 - 1974 |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the National Library of Wales and the Welsh County Archivists Group, have the following parish records online for Radyr:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Radyr | 1725-1912 | 1725-1926 |
Maps
Online maps of Radyr are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: