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Rhydlafar

Village in Cardiff, Wales

Summary

Village in Cardiff, Wales

Field	Value
country	Wales
static_image_name	Rhydlafar Drive, Rhydlafar. - geograph.org.uk - 380525.jpg
static_image_width	250
constituency_welsh_assembly	Cardiff West
official_name	Rhydlafar
unitary_wales	Cardiff
lieutenancy_wales	South Glamorgan
constituency_westminster	Cardiff West
post_town	CARDIFF
postcode_district	CF
dial_code	029
coordinates

Rhydlafar is a small settlement in Wales located on the outskirts of Cardiff, around 5 miles west of the city centre and 5 miles south-east of Llantrisant. The village falls within the community and ward of Creigiau & St Fagans. It was formerly the site of the specialist Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, and the settlement essentially comprises a recent housing estate development built over the former hospital.

Location

The A4119 road lies just to the south, the dismantled railway of the Penrhos branch of the Barry Railway is immediately east, and the M4 bounds the settlement to the north.

Etymology

The name probably originates from the Welsh language word rhyd ('ford': see also 'Rhydaman' or 'Ammanford', etc.) and the stream 'Llafar' ('spoken', 'voiced') which flows nearby; thus the meaning could be rendered 'Ford on the (river) Llafar' with Llafar being a common name for streams roughly equivalent to "babbling" in English (e.g. "a babbling brook"). Incidentally, 'llafar' is Welsh for 'speech' or 'chat'.

Hospital

The Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital was a specialist health facility which closed in 1998. The site previously occupied by the hospital is now a housing development on a landscaped site.

References

(2015). "Concise Road Atlas: Britain". AA Publishing.
Owen, Hywel Wyn. (2007). "Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales". Gomer.
"The Prince of Wales Hospital 1953 - 1998". Parc Rhydlafar.
"Cardiff Community Boundary Review". City of Cardiff Council.

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