page_title: Llanrumney
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Llanrumney / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Rhymney River in Llanrumney, Cardiff
context_page_description: Llanrumney is a suburb, community and electoral ward in east Cardiff, Wales.
  Llanrumney was in Monmouthshire until it was incorporated into Cardiff in 1938.
context_section_description: The land where modern Llanrumney stands was left to Keynsham Abbey by the Lord of Glamorgan after the Norman Conquest. According to legend, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the final prince of an independent Wales, was interred in a stone coffin by the monks in 1282, on land where Llanrumney Hall would be built centuries later.
  After Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century, the land passed to the Kemeys family.  It remained in their possession until 1951, when it and its grounds were compulsorily purchased by the local authority in order to build the large estates that can be seen there today.
  The origins of the name Llanrumney are found in the Welsh word glan ('bank, shore') and the Anglicised version of Rhymni, the name of the local river. The substitution of glan for llan ('church') is explained by the fact that in Welsh, 'lan' is the lenited form of both glan and llan. Thus phrases such as 'i Lanrhymni' and 'o Lanrhymni' (that include the common prepositions i 'to' and o 'from') could be understood as referring to a place called either Glanrhymni or Llanrhymni.
  The district is predominantly composed of large scale council estates and is bounded by the wards of Pontprennau & Old St. Mellons to the north, Rumney to the south, Penylan to the southwest, and Pentwyn to the west. The electoral ward of Llanrumney falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff South and Penarth.
  The area has a number of shopping precincts, the largest of which can be found on Countisbury Avenue. The Eastern Leisure Centre is scheduled to be refurbished at a cost of £6.8m. Llanrumney Hall, a reputedly haunted pub, is one of several local locations associated with the pirate Henry Morgan. and is claimed to have been his home from 1635.
  Llanrumney Library opened in 2008, replacing the old Llanrumney Library.
  Cyncoed Ladies F.C. of the Welsh Premier Women's Football League have been based in the area since 2005 when they were formed.
caption: Rhymney River
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