Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rumney

Rumney.-- par. and vil., Monmouthshire, on border of co. and on river Rumney, or Rhymney, 2½ miles NW. of Cardiff, 2215 ac. land and 1160 water, pop. 445; P.O.; on an eminence overlooking the river is an ancient camp.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rumney CP/AP       Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Rumney

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