Butetown (Cardiff)

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Cardiff City Council has sub-divided its City electoral wards into designated City Communities or Divisions for administrative and statistical purposes. The attached polygon, however, represents the "Butetown" Community division, which is co-terminous with the "Butetown" electoral ward.

It includes within it, but is considerably larger than, the "Cardiff Bay" area of the City, technically now undefined since at least the demise of the statutory Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, but which has undergone a massive redevelopment in recent years, coincident with the siting of the National Assembly for Wales in this part of the Capitol City in 1999.

Butetown (or The Docks, Welsh: Tre-Biwt) is a community in the south of the city of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early nineteenth century by John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, for whose title the area was named. Commonly known as "Tiger Bay", this area became one of the UK's first multicultural communities with people from over 50 countries settled here by the outbreak of World War I, working in the docks and allied industries. Some of the largest communities included the Somalis, Yemenis and Greeks, whose influence still lives on today. A Greek Orthodox church still stands at the top of Bute Street.


For large-scale on-line inter-active official City Council map used in drawing attached polygon see @:
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