Radyr, Glamorgan

Description
Radyr, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, on the river Taff, 5 miles NW of Cardiff, with a station on the Taff Vale railway, and a post office under Cardiff; money order office, Tongwynlais; telegraph office, at the railway station. The parish includes Morgan's Town. Acreage, 1630 ; population, 610. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Radyr Court was the seat of the Matthews family, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, Lord Windsor. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1857. There are a school church and a Calvinistic Methodist chapel.