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Tram on Newport Road c. 1912 View looking onto St James Church and CRI, from Eastgate House Retail Park, Penylan/Rumney Newport Road on Rumney Hill. Newport Road is a 4.7 mi (7.5 km) road leading east from the centre of Cardiff, Wales, towards Newport, until it joins the A48 at St Mellons.
The retail park is built on the edge of a former Ferry Road refuse site, which closed in 1994 after being filled with 4 million cubic metres of commercial and domestic rubbish. The ownership of the land passed to Cardiff Bay Development Corporation who created the retail park on an area of industrial units to the east of the site. [ 2 ]
John Speed's 1610 map of Cardiff. Cardiff was granted city status by Edward VII in 1905. [4] In the 1960s, planners described Cardiff city centre as "worn out, inconvenient, drab and dangerous". The centre had escaped the extensive wartime bomb damage inflicted on other cities, so little redevelopment took place in the 1950s and 1960s.
The A469 is a road in south Wales. It links Cardiff and Caerphilly with Rhymney and the Heads of the Valleys Road ... Cardiff & Newport A-Z Street Atlas 2007 Edition
The A48 in Cardiff was re-numbered to the A4161 on 19 November 1971 when the Eastern Avenue dual carriageway became the A48. [1] By 2 November 1975, Queen Street was partly pedestrianised and 2 subways were opened under North Road and Boulevard de Nantes [ 1 ] to allow the A4161 then to move from Queen Street to Dumfries Place, Stuttgarter ...
Cardiff Central is also one of the United Kingdom's major railway stations, providing connections to Newport, Bristol, Bath, London, Southampton, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Birmingham and Nottingham. Cardiff Central continues to serve as a major interchange on the British rail network, with 1,042,297 changes at the station in 08/09.
Cardiff Bargoed; Newport; Blackwood, Town Districts Cardiff Coach Station [17] Cardiff Sophia Gardens: 9 National Express services Newport, Swansea: Cardiff Bus Interchange [18] Cardiff city centre: 14 Cardiff City districts; Vale of Glamorgan: Proposed Cardiff West Transport Interchange (also known as Western Transport Interchange) [19] [20 ...
Caroline Street (Welsh: Stryd Caroline) is a pedestrianised street running east–west in the lower part of Cardiff city centre, located between The Hayes and St. Mary's Street. Due to the density of fast food shops along the street, it is colloquially referred to as Chip Alley, or Chippy Lane.