The traditional Canton Cross common land now has Cardiff City FC's Cardiff City Stadium football ground and Cardiff International Sports Stadium built on it, with the last remnant of the medieval market represented only by Bessemer Road fruit market. The market's tram depot and stabling was also next to Severn Road Council School, trams ran on rails with overhead electric power from the depot and Victoria Park to the city centre and on to other locations in Cardiff from 1902, until they were replaced by Cardiff's electric trolleybuses in 1950. The market dealt with sheep and pigs as well as cattle and the market buildings also included a slaughterhouse, so the animals could be butchered on site ready for transporting to the many butchers shops all over Cardiff.
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The market yard and rows of stables would be full of the farmers’ carts and traps from all over the Vale of Glamorgan. The market near Canton Cross, which by then had wound down to a weekly cattle market, had been relocated to lands that now house Cantonian High School in adjacent Fairwater. The extensive common lands at Ely Common were already in the process of being converted into a municipal recreation ground called Victoria Park and new housing by the city council in 1899. Richard Williams, but there is no record of when the Manor House was eventually demolished. At that time it was under the occupation of a Mr. In 1899, the Manor House was recorded as still standing, on the west side of Canton Common but it was in a poor condition and in danger of falling down. Included in Canton was Pwll-coch, which had previously been considered part of Ely. The independent hamlet of Canton was incorporated as a district of the City of Cardiff by charter in 1875. In 1870 the large Atlas Engineering works was built in Canton and opened its doors, creating many new skilled jobs in the area. From around 1840, Halket Street, Canton, became home to many Irish families, indeed Canton was the recognised centre of Cardiff's increasing Irish community, most of whom were fleeing the potato famines in their own country and seeking work and housing in the ports of Liverpool and Cardiff. Johns, Canton was completed and opened as a local chapel annexe of nearby Llandaff Cathedral. In the year 1450, stewardship of the Manor of Caneton is recorded as having been granted to Sir David ap Mathew, Lord of Llandaff manor but a resident of Radyr. Imports of fresh foods and tradeable goods were also brought to the market from those ports. Items that were to be exported were then transported or herded to the docks at Cardiff, Penarth and Swanbridge. Goods, including all manner of fresh food stuffs, live animals and household items were brought from all over Cardiff and the South Wales Valleys to be traded at the market. The market was open daily except Sundays on the extensive Canton common lands at the junction where Llandaff Road and Leckwith Road now cross Cowbridge Road East, opposite where the Canton Cross Vaults public house still stands. A medieval market įrom around 1250, for several hundred years Canton Cross was the site of the largest and most significant trading market in the South Wales area. As also one penny rent from John, son of John Godman of Kaerdif, for three other acres in the same Sudcrofte under Kanetone." (Richard de Kaneton was also one of the witnesses to this charter). “John, son of Robert de Landaf, granting to Milo de Regny a rent of sixpence arising out of three acres of land with the appurtenances, which John de Lake, formerly bailiff of la Lekwiffe, had of my fee under Kanetone, in Sudcrofte. Also in 1290 ( Cartae 1 page 294) records: In 1290, Richard de Canetone is recorded as a witness on the new Cardiff charter. In 1262, a doctor or ‘Physicus’ called Nicholas de Kanetone gave evidence in a legal dispute between the Abbeys of Margam and St. In 1230, a man named as Walter de Canetune is named in the Cardiff charter, and signed the charter, obviously as a resident of quite high status. In 1215, a parishioner called Lucia de Kanetune is recorded as occupying a field ‘near the Earl's wall’. It is believed that Canton is named after St Canna, the holy matron in the Celtic age of Saints, and Canna herself is reputed to have been a relative of King Arthur Canton, or Treganna in the Welsh language, was formed around a 13th-century Manor in Cardiff and assumed lands from nearby Llandaff and Leckwith parishes under the stewardship of an Earl (or Baron) de Kanetune, although today the manor comes under the jurisdiction of the Manor of Llandaff.
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