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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.
Centred on the road of that name leading south towards the east end of the city centre, the area is mostly pedestrianised and is the location of the Hayes Island Snack Bar. At the north end of The Hayes is the Old Library , known as the Cardiff Free Library, Museum and Schools for Science and Art during its century (1882 to 1988) of use as the ...
Formerly called Tiger Bay, this was where the world's first million-pound cheque was signed and was the centre of the global coal industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1980s the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was set up to redevelop the area and has since been transformed into a high-profile area of living, shopping, dining and ...
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.
St Mary Street (Welsh: Heol Eglwys Fair) and High Street (Welsh: Heol Fawr) are major commercial streets in the Castle Quarter of Cardiff city centre, Wales, which form a major thoroughfare running south from the gatehouse of Cardiff Castle.
Sidling up to Cardiff Central station, the Clayton is a sure-fire family pleaser, just a 10-minute toddle from the city’s fantasy castle, the vast open spaces of Bute Park (check out the ...
Callaghan Square, city centre, previously known as Bute Square. Central Square, city centre, included the bus station between 1954 and 2015. Loudoun Square, Butetown; Mount Stuart Square, Butetown; Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff Bay.
Location of the City and County of Cardiff in Wales. The list of standardised Welsh place-names, for places in Cardiff, is a list compiled by the Welsh Language Commissioner to recommend the standardisation of the spelling of Welsh place-names, particularly in the Welsh language and when multiple forms are used, although some place-names in English were also recommended to be matched with the ...