South Glamorgan

Peterston railway station served the village of Peterston-super-Ely in South Wales between 1858 and 1964.

Peterston-super-Ely (Welsh: Llanbedr-y-fro) is a village and community situated on the River Ely (Welsh: Afon Elái) in the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The community population at the 2011 census was 874. The community includes the hamlet of Gwern-y-Steeple.

Groes-faen is a village approximately three miles south of Llantrisant in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is in the historic county of Glamorgan. The village began as a hamlet in the 1860s near a trade route from Cowbridge to Cardiff.

Creigiau is a dormitory settlement in the north-west of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The village currently has about 1,500 houses and a population of approximately 5,000 people. The Cardiff electoral ward is called Creigiau & St Fagans. The village has a strong Welsh-speaking community, and along with Pentyrch has one of the largest clusters of Welsh-speakers in Cardiff. 23.4% of the village speaks Welsh.

Wydham Park (originally known as Glyn Cory Garden Village) is an uncompleted planned village in Peterston-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan. It was the first garden suburb in Wales.The development was funded by the coal industry magnate and ship owner John Cory. Cory resided at his nearby estate, Dyffryn House, in the village of Dyffryn. After Cory's death in 1910 the development of Glyn Cory Garden Village was led by his son, Reginald. Cory left £10,000 (equivalent to £1,086,000 in 2021) for the completion of Glyn Cory in his will. The 1913 edition of Ewart Culpin's book The Garden City Movement Up-To-Date describes the planned 300 acre site of Glyn Cory Garden Village as consisting of 1400 houses over 140 acres of residential land with an 80-acre golf course, and 60 acres for small holdings and allotments. The houses were available on leases of 99 or 999 years at a cost which was a quarter of similarly developed land in the city of Cardiff, some 7 miles away.It was planned by Thomas Adams in collaboration with the landscape and garden designer Thomas Hayton Mawson. Only 22 houses had been completed of the original plan by 1914. The original plan involved the creation of a church with hundreds of houses and several public buildings on a 300-acre site. The site was intended to be laid out over "a grand amphitheatre of concentric roads with radial avenues".The land agent of the scheme was W. R. Jackson. Sales particulars were first made available in 1909. The Welshman wrote in October 1909 that "The problem of housing must be solved in the suburbs of our towns rather than in the centres" and that the creation of Glyn Cory was "a step towards the solving of this problem" and arose "from a desire on the part of the owner and his family to make healthy housing conditions possible by providing an example of town planning on a rural area which is still unspoiled by the encroachment of ordinary suburban development".1–10 Pwll-y-Min Crescent in Wydham Park are listed Grade II by Cadw. The heritage listing for 1–10 Pwll-y-Min Crescent describes the reason or their listing as for their "architectural interest as part of a most unusual crescent of early C20 houses" and for their "strikingly original design". The architect of Nos. 1–10 is unknown, with Thomas Adams and Baillie Scott being probable candidates.

Cardiff West services (Welsh: Gwasanaethau Gorllewin Caerdydd) is a motorway service station on junction 33 of the M4 motorway and the Capel Llanilltern junction of the A4232 near Cardiff, Wales. It is owned by Moto. In 2008, the services won the AA Patrol Approved Awards for best toilet.The services has previously acted as a site for escorting fans to Cardiff City FC games, because of travelling restrictions imposed on away fans visiting the city. These restrictions were relaxed in 2010, but the services continued to act as a sales point for match vouchers. Subsequently, the services has become well known to Cardiff City fans, particularly after a prominent appearance in the situation comedy Gavin & Stacey.In 2004, the services was the site of several protests over the rise in fuel duty. In May, 50 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) entered the services' car park as the ending point of a "go slow" demonstration along the M4. In June, the site was chosen as a meeting place for another protest. 150 HGVs made a journey from the services to the centre of Cardiff.In 2010, rugby player Andy Powell was arrested at the services for allegedly driving a stolen golf buggy while intoxicated.

Brofiscin Quarry, Groes Faen is a disused limestone quarry in Groes-faen, near Llantrisant in South Wales. It was used for about seven years for the dumping of toxic waste including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and was capped in 2011. Some 72 000m3 / 80 000 tonnes of material was dumped here. Prior to its remediation, The Guardian described the site as "one of the most contaminated places in Britain." The level of pollution is such that it featured in an international conference discussing remediation of contaminated land. These events were described by The Ecologist magazine as "one of the biggest environmental crimes to have occurred in the UK". and the key witness at an Environmental Agency inquiry on 2006 ended up needing to live under police protection. The company using this disposal site also used the nearby Maendy Quarry.

Creigiau railway station was a railway station in Creigiau in south Wales. It was on the Barry Railway between Efail Isaf and Wenvoe, which ran broadly north–south through Creigiau. To the east of the station, a second former line headed north-west towards Llantrisant, and south-east towards Cardiff. There was no connection between these lines; the Barry Railway line passed over the former Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway's and later Taff Vale Railway's Waterhall branch to the north of the station. During the Second World War, the station was used to transfer American military to the nearby hospital at Rhydlafar. The Railway closed in 1962. Both platforms remain, albeit rather overgrown. The site of the station buildings and yard is now used by a coach operator.

Gwern-y-steeple is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It lies north of the A48 road and north-west St. Nicholas (to which it is linked by Chapel Lane) on the road south-west of Peterston-Super-Ely. Cottrell Park Golf Club lies to the south. Gwern-y-steeple is part of the village of Peterston-Super-Ely and lies within the catchment area of both Peterson-Super-Ely Church in Wales Primary School and Pendoylan Primary School. The local member of Parliament is Conservative Alun Cairns and is part of the Vale of Glamorgan county council. The local county councillor is Rhodri Traherne. The village of St. Nicholas once extended as far north as Gwern-y-steeple, with Croes-y-Parc Chapel, originally being within the St. Nicholas boundary.

St-y-Nyll is a large detached house near the village of St. Brides-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan. It was built in 1924 by the Welsh architect Percy Thomas in the Neo-Georgian style. A Tudor mansion dating from the 1480s had previously stood on the site. It has been listed Grade II by Cadw since June 1977. It was put up for sale in 2000 for £715,000 and was described as having 13.4 acres (5.4 ha) of grounds. The interior is noted for its plaster cornices, parquet floors, and original fireplaces dating from the 17th century, the Georgian period, and in the style of Robert Adam. It sold for £1.5 million in June 2020.

St. Brides-super-Ely is a village and district of the community of Peterston-super-Ely, within the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is located near the western border of the Welsh Capital City of Cardiff, to the west of the A4232, and north of the River Ely. The medieval Church of St Ffraid at St. Brides is Grade II listed. An ancient yew tree stands in the churchyard near the south porch. It is 24 ft in diameter at its lower crown.The Grade II listed house St-y-Nyll stands just outside the village. It was designed by Percy Thomas and built in 1924.

Pendoylan (Welsh: Pendeulwyn pronounced [pɛnˈdəi̯lui̯n] meaning 'head of two groves') is a rural village and community (parish) in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The village has won many awards in Best Kept Village competitions and contains 27 entries in the Council's County Treasures database, 13 of which are listed buildings.