In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Llanedern like this:
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.
Llanedern through time
Llanedern is now part of Cardiff district. Click here for graphs and data of how Cardiff has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Llanedern itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Llanedern, in Cardiff and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3383
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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