Michaelston-le-Pit
  • Welsh: Llanfihangel-y-pwll
Michaelston-le-Pit Village Green
Michaelston-le-Pit is located in Vale of Glamorgan
Michaelston-le-Pit
Michaelston-le-Pit
Location within the Vale of Glamorgan
OS grid referenceST152730
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Postcode districtCF
PoliceSouth Wales
FireSouth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
Church of St Michael & All Angels

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]

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

Rev. 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

  1. ↑ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Cadw. "Cwrt-yr-Ala House (Grade II) (26489)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Cadw. "Cwrt-yr-Ala (PGW(Gm)42(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Stewart, Henry (STWT866HH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ↑ "Former first minister Rhodri Morgan died while out cycling near his home".
  6. ↑ "Rhodri Morgan talks about his retirement passion for his garden". 10 August 2011.
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