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      • Splott War Memorial, St Saviour’s, Splott Road
      • St Andrew’s URC War Memorial
      • St Edward’s War Memorials
      • St James the Great War Memorials
      • St Margaret’s War Memorial Tower
      • St Martin’s, Albany Road,Roath, War Memorial plaques
      • St Peter’s Roll of Honour
      • Tredegarville Baptist Church War Memorial
      • Roath Road Wesleyan Methodist Chapel War Memorial
      • Splott Road Baptist Church War Memorial Tablets
      • Albany Road Baptist Church War Memorials
      • Cardiff High School War Memorial
      • Cathays Methodist Church war memorial
      • Crwys Hall / Highfields Church, Monthermer Road memorials
      • Howard Gardens High School War Memorial
      • Cardiff United Synagogue War Memorials
      • Mackintosh Institute Roll of Honour
      • Trinity Centre, Four Elms Road
      • Roath Park Congregational Church war memorials
      • Roath Park Wesleyan Church War Memorial and Roll of Honour
      • Cardiff Royal Infirmary War Memorials
      • Charles Street Wesleyan Methodist Church War Memorial
      • St Andrew’s and St Teilo’s war memorial
      • St German’s War Memorial plaques
      • Woodville Road Baptist Church war memorials
      • Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds War Memorials
      • Oddfellows War Memorial Plaque
      • St Illtyd’s College war memorial plaque
      • Cardiff Blitz Memorial
      • Plasnewydd Presbyterian Church War Memorial plaques
      • Western Mail Roll of Honour
      • Cardiff Coal Exchange War Memorial Plaque
      • City URC Church war memorial plaques
      • Clifton Street Calvinistic Methodist Chapel and Forward Movement Halls
      • Bethany Baptist War Memorial
    • Project Newsletters
      • Project Newsletter – Volume 1
      • Vol 1, No 1: Geology, Archaeology and Pre-Norman Roath
      • Vol 3 No 1: Roath Probate Inventories 1600 – 1700, Roath Keynsham – an undated rental, Plasnewydd Presbyterian Church – early history, Notes on Llanedeyrn.
      • Volume 1 Number 4 – Albany Road
      • Vol 1, No 2: Roath – the Lost Village
      • Vol 1, No 3: Roath 150 Years Ago
      • Vol 1, No 3: Adamsdown
      • Vol 2 No 4: St Andrew’s United Reformed Church
      • Vol 2 No 4: Roath Mill
      • Vol 1 No 6 -What we learn from census returns – Roath 1851
      • Vol 1 No 5: The Manor of Roath
      • Vol 1 No 7: Some Gentry Families in Roath Parish or Manor?
      • Vol 1 No 9: Forty Years in Splott & Vol 3 No 4: Why Splott and the History of Splott though time.
      • Vol 3 No 2: includes Penylan, Plasnewydd and Pormanmoor
      • Vol 3 No 3: Water tower & Pen-y-lan Observatory, Roath Court, Mackintosh Institute and the Mackintosh family.
      • Vol 4 No 2 The Streets of Roath
      • Vol 4 No 1: Nant Fawr – the Roath Brook and Talworth House
      • Vol 5 No 3: Reminiscences of Thomas Glyde of Cardiff in the 1860’s
    • Roads of Roath
      • Albany Road
      • Richmond Road / West Grove
      • Adamsdown / Roath streets
      • Roath / Plasnewydd streets
      • Roath Park roads
      • Wellfield Road
      • Cathays Streets
      • City Road
      • Broadway
      • East Tyndall Street
      • Clifton Street
      • Crwys Road
      • Newport Road
      • Pen-y-lan Road
      • Colchester Avenue
      • Splott streets
      • Tremorfa / Pengam Streets
      • Pen-y-lan Streets
      • Splott Road
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      • Cardiff Royal Infirmary
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      • Splott Park
      • Howardian Local Nature Reserve
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      • Milestones
      • Sculpture and other works of art
      • Street Art
      • Victorian Pillar Boxes
      • Roath Porch Tiles
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Local History

The old ecclesiastical parish of Roath  has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years.  In this section of our website we are starting to assemble that history.  Click on the links below to take you to the specific pages:

Buildings

Cinemas

Churches

Odds and Ends

Parks

Pubs

People

Project Newsletters

Roads

Schools

War Memorials

 

 

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Meetings are held at 7.30pm on the second Wednesday of the month from September through to May.  See Programme for details.

We meet at St Edward’s, Westville Road, Pen-y-lan, Cardiff.  CF23 5DE

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