Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENARTH

PENARTH, a sea-port and a parish in Cardiff district, Glamorgan. The sea-port adjoins Penarth-head, 3 miles S of Cardiff; is practically a suburb and a sub-port of Cardiff; communicates, by branch railway, with the railways at Cardiff; and has a post-office‡ under Cardiff, and a large dock. The dock was begun in 1851, and completed in 1865; is 2, 100 feet long, and 370 feet wide; covers an area of 17½ acres; has a basin of 3 acres, a lock of 400 feet by 300, and a sea-entrance 60 feet wide, with a depth of 35 feet over the sill at spring tides; and admits larger vessels than any other dock in the Bristolchannel. The parish comprises 1, 142 acres of land, and 365 of water. Real property, in 1860, £4, 648; of which £23 were in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 105; in 1861, 1, 406. Houses, 192. The living is a rectory, united with therectory of Lavernock, in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £187. Patron, the Baroness Windsor. The church was rebuilt in 1866, at a cost of about £10,000; and is in the early English style and cruciform, with a tower. Achantry of Llandongh priory was here.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a sea-port and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Penarth CP/AP       Cardiff RegD/PLU       Glamorgan AncC
Place: Penarth

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