Canton, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Canton, a large and populous suburb, one of the wards of Cardiff, and an ecclesiastical parish constituted in 1858 from the civil parish of Llandaff, Glamorgan, half a mile NW of Cardiff railway station. Population of ward, 13,166; of the ecclesiastical parish, 32,775. A cattle market is held monthly in the extensive market-place for Llandaff and Canton district. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £298 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. St John's Church, commenced in 1871 and completed in 1881, is a plain stone edifice in the Early English style. St Catherine's Church is in the Early Decorated style. St Paul's was built in 1890. There are Welsh and English Baptist, Welsh and English Congregational, Calvinistic Methodist, Primitive Methodist, and Wealeyan chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Registration district | Cardiff | 1837 - 1903 |
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 Canton:
Parish | Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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Canton | 1868-1907 | 1908-1927 | 1923-1927 | |
Canton, St John | 1907-1912 |
Maps
Online maps of Canton 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: