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 Council:

Communities

City Centre
Main article: Cardiff 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
Main article: Cathays Park

The Civic Centre is built from white Portland stone, and location of much of:

Cardiff Bay
Main article: 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:

Cardiff International Sports Village
Main article: 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.

Buildings

Covered markets and shopping centres
Main article: List of shopping arcades in Cardiff

Leisure centres
Main article: Leisure centres in Cardiff
  • Eastern Leisure Centre
  • Fairwater Leisure Centre
  • Llanishen Leisure Centre
  • Western Leisure Centre
  • Pentwyn Leisure Centre
  • Channel View Leisure Centre
  • Cardiff International Pool
  • Maindy Centre
  • Star Centre

Public libraries
Main article: Libraries in Cardiff
  • Canton Library
  • Cathays Library
  • Central Library
  • Ely and Caerau Community Hub [1]
  • Fairwater Library
  • Grangetown Library
  • Llandaff North Library
  • Llanedeyrn Library
  • Llanishen Library
  • Llanrumney Library
  • Penylan Library
  • Radyr Library
  • Roath Library Closed 2015 [2]
  • Rhiwbina Library
  • Rhydypennau Library
  • Rumney Library
  • Splott Library
  • St Mellons Library
  • Tongwynlais Library
  • Whitchurch Library

Police stations

Historical

Communities that no longer exist

Notable buildings that no longer exist

Geographical

Rivers and waterways

Rivers

Canals

Weirs

Lakes and reservoirs

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

Educational establishments

Higher Education

Further Education

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
  • Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Hamadryad

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

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

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

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

Llandaff North

Llanedeyrn
  • Llanedeyrn High School
  • Llanedeyrn 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

Pontprennau
  • Pontprennau Primary School

Radyr & Morganstown

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

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

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

Parks

Archaeological sites

Retail parks
Cardiff Lifestyle Shopping Park, Llanishen
Avenue Retail Park, Rumney
Capital Retail Park, Leckwith

Transport
Main article: Transport in Cardiff

Public transport hubs

Major roads

Railway lines

Railway stations

Cycle routes

Walking routes

Bridges
  • A4055 Bridge (River Ely)
  • A48 Bridge (River Taff)
  • Blackweir footbridge
  • Brains Bridge (railway, Grangetown)
  • Cardiff Bridge (River Taff) - also known as Canton Bridge
  • Clarence Bridge (River Taff)
  • Ely Bridge
  • Leckwith Bridges (River Ely), a medieval bridge and its 20th century replacement
  • Llandaff Bridge (River Taff)
  • Lowther Road Bridge (railway)
  • Millennium Footbridge (River Taff)
  • M4 bridge (River Taff)
  • Penarth Road Bridge (River Taff)
  • Pont y Werin (foot/cycle, River Ely)
  • Rumney River bridge (road)
  • Virgil Street bridge (railway, Grangetown)

Shipping

Airports

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

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See also

References
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  2. "Roath library will not be sold off – but only if community group take it over and keep it as a library". Wales Online. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
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  4. "Central Hotel to get new lease of life". Wales Online. 24 July 2003. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
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  7. "184 tobacco jobs go at city plant". BBC. 27 November 2007.
  8. "33 fascinating pictures of cardiff".
  9. "CORPORATION BATHS, GUILDFORD CRESCENT, CARDIFF". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
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  11. Jones, Bryan "Canton" The Chalfont Publishing Company (1995), p.111
  12. "Shop in Cardiff". Cardiff & Co. Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
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