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Type: Suburb with 16,100 residents. Description: community and inner city area in Cardiff, Wales. Categories: community and locality. Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude.
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Canton (Welsh: Treganna) is an inner-city district and community in the west of Cardiff, capital of Wales, lying 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the city's civic centre. It is located adjacent to Pontcanna. Canton is one of the most ethnically diverse of Cardiff's suburbs, with a significant Pakistani and Indian population.
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- St. Canna of Brittany
- 19th Century Developments
- Victoria Park and Billy The Seal
- Parks and Arts
- Cowbridge Road
The name Canton may be derived from the nearby Canna brook in Pontcanna (named after St. Canna), and the word 'Ton', which can either mean Farm or Meadow. The name could also possibly have meant 'St. Canna's estate'. Most historical sources indicate that Canton probably started life as a hamlet (a group of houses smaller than a village) before the ...
The area was sparsely populated but the Bishop of Llandaff, who owned the land, also owned a mill and a manor house. In 1859, the Cattle Market and Slaughterhouse opened, and by the late 19th Century, there were stables, a meat market, and Fairs were being held monthly. A major employer in the area was William Vaughan, a local councillor and preach...
Victoria Park, known for its beautiful fountain and attractive flowerbeds, was opened in 1897 on the former Ely Common. It had the first public bowling green in Cardiff, and was home to Billy the seal - an unusual neighbour but a famous Cardiffian nevertheless! It is thought that she had been accidentally caught by a foreign trawler in 1912. When t...
The original Canton High School was opened in 1907 on Market Road, but was nearly completely destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the German bombing raids in the second World War. The school was repaired, but it soon moved to new premises at Fairwater in 1963. The building in Market Road is now the home of the 'Chapter Arts Centre'. In 1891, land-owne...
Many family businesses started in Cowbridge Road, with some trading for nearly one hundred years. Franklin's Bakery at the corner of Gray Street and Pope's photography services, on the corner of Albert Street were some of the oldest shops that have unfortunately closed down in recent years. Woolworths, a victim of the credit crunch, closed in 2009 ...
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Map of Canton, Cardiff: This page presents the Google satellite map (zoomable and browsable) of Canton in Cardiff County in United Kingdom. Geographical coordinates are 51.481268452949 and -3.2038322201909.
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