Sully, Glamorgan

Description
Sully, a parish in Glamorgan, on the coast, 2 miles SE of Cadoxton, with a station on the Taff Vale railway, and a post office under Penarth; money order and telegraph office, Cadoxton. It includes Sully and Barry Islands, and comprises 1382 acres of land and 863 of water (of which 846 are foreshore); population, 158. The manor was given by Fitzhammon to Sir R. de Sully, and belongs now to Lord Wimborne. There is a fragment of an ancient castle. Sully Island has a small Norse camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff; gross value, £221 with residence. Patron, Lord Wimborne. The church has been much modernized.