St Andrew, Glamorgan

Historical Description

Andrew, St, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, 3 miles W of Penarth, and 6 SW of Cardiff. The parish contains the village of Dinas-Powis, with a post office under Cardiff. Acreage, 3186; population, 1149. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; value, £460. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. There are chapels of the Wesleyans and Cal-vinistic Methodists at Dinas-Powis.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 St Andrew's Major:

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

For births, marriages, and deaths in St Andrew from 1837 to 1934 you should search for the Cardiff Registration District.
For births, marriages, and deaths in St Andrew from 1935 to 1974 you should search for the East Glamorgan Registration District.

Maps

Online maps of St Andrew 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:

• South Wales Daily News
• The Cardiff Times
• Western Mail
• South Wales Echo