Michaelston-le-Pit (Welsh: Llanfihangel-y-pwll) is a village in the Vale of Glamorgan, just to the west of the city of Cardiff, Wales. It is part of the Michaelston-le-Pit and Leckwith community. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 309.[1]
Michaelston-le-Pit
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 Michaelston-le-Pit Village Green | |
  Michaelston-le-Pit Location within the Vale of Glamorgan | |
| OS grid reference | ST152730 |
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| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | CF |
| Police | South Wales |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
To the south lies the town of Penarth, while to the south west lies the village of Dinas Powys. The Cwrt-yr-Ala estate stands to the west. The ancestral home of the Rous and Brain families, the estate was bought in the early 20th century by Sir Herbert Merrett, a Cardiff industrialist. In 1939, Merrett commissioned Percy Thomas to build him a new home on the site. Cwrt-yr-Ala House is a Grade II listed building and its gardens and grounds are listed, also at Grade II, on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[2][3]
The village is built near the confluence of two small streams, which join to form the Cadoxton River. The French suffix is possibly derived from a clay pit near the southern end of the village, it having been settled on a Norman family, the De Raneghs, after the conquest.
Llanfihangel-y-pwll means The Church of St Michael and All Angels of the Pool or Pit. It is not to be confused with Latin suffixed Michaelston-super-Ely (Cardiff) or Welsh suffixed Michaelstone-y-Fedw (Newport).
Notable people
editRev. Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937), who won the FA Cup with Wanderers in 1873, was rector at the parish church from 1925 to 1935.[4]
The village was the home to former First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Cadw. "Cwrt-yr-Ala House (Grade II) (26489)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ Cadw. "Cwrt-yr-Ala (PGW(Gm)42(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ "Stewart, Henry (STWT866HH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Former first minister Rhodri Morgan died while out cycling near his home".
- ^ "Rhodri Morgan talks about his retirement passion for his garden". 10 August 2011.
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