Llanrumney

Llanrumney (Welsh Llanrhymni) is a district, suburb and community in the east of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.

History

The land where modern Llanrumney stands was left to Keynsham Abbey by the Lord of Glamorgan after the Norman Conquest. According to legend, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the final prince of an independent Wales, was interred in a stone coffin by the monks in 1282, on land where Llanrumney Hall would be built centuries later.

After Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, the land passed to the Kemeys family. It remained in their possession until 1951, when it and its grounds were compulsorily purchased by the local authority in order to build the large estates that can be seen there today.

Name

The name Llanrumney comes from the Welsh word Llan, meaning "Church" or "Parish", and Rumney the Anglicised version of Rhymney the local river with the Rhymney River|same name. Making the literal translation "The Church by the Rhymney River

Area

The district is a predominantly composed of large scale council estates and is bounded by the wards of Pontprennau & Old St. Mellons to the north, Rumney to the south, Penylan to the southwest, and Pentwyn to the west. The electoral ward of Llanrumney falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff South and Penarth.