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A vision of Britain through time
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CANTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Llandaff parish, Glamorgan; adjacent to the Taff Valley and the Rvmney railways, 1 mile NW of Cardiff. It has a post office‡ under Cardiff. Rated property, £5,589. Pop., 3,920. Houses, 709. The property is much subdivided. The chapelry was constituted in 1858. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Llandaff. A Baptist chapel, in the Lombardic style, was built in 1858.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Llandaff CP/AP Glamorgan AncC |
| Place: | Canton |
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