Beaufort Square

Beaufort Square park is in the centre of a modern housing development north of Rover Way in Tremorfa. The houses/apartments were built in the early 2000s.

Left: 1949-73 map showing Pengam siding and the area where the Freightliner terminal would have been and the modern Beaufort Square marked in red (image credit: side by side maps from National Library of Scotland)

The square park has a number of intersecting paths but is basically a large green area with a playground slightly offset from the centre and trees around the edge slowly gaining maturity.  

Beaufort Square (photographed Feb 2024)
Beaufort Square playground (photographed Feb 2024)
Beaufort Square playground (photographed Feb 2024)
Beaufort Square playground (photographed Feb 2024)

Beaufort Square and a number of neighbouring roads are named after aircraft from around the WWII era that probably used nearby Pengam Airfield as a base at some stage. The name of the Bristol Beaufort aircraft derives from the Duke of Beaufort, whose ancestral home was near their manufacturing line in Gloucestershire .

Bristol Beaufort aircraft (picture credit: IWM / Wikipedia)

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