Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LLANEDARN

LLANEDARN, a parish in Cardiff district, Glamorgan; on the river Rumney, at the boundary with Monmouth, and near the South Wales railway, 5 miles NE by N of Cardiff. Post town, Cardiff. Acres, 2,636. Real property, £2,121. Pop. in 1851,338; in 1861,289. Houses, 63. The property is divided among a few. Cevn-Mably and Ruperra are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of St. Mellons, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is dedicated to St. Edlyrn, and was reported in 1859 as not good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Llanedern AP/CP       Cardiff RegD/PLU       Glamorgan AncC
Place: Llanedern

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