4 Blogs for Cardiff ©
4 Blogs for Cardiff

4 Blogs for Cardiff

The city's pub historian, a street-by-street local history society, Cardiff's own culture magazine, and the council's free list

Cardiff's best local writing is about the city that visitors walk past: the pubs that have been pouring for centuries, the tiled porches of the terraced streets, the hills on the edge of town with the whole city laid out below. These four are written from inside it, by a Cardiffian historian, a volunteer society, the city's long-running culture magazine and the council's own tourism team.

Read together, they will take you out of the Bay and the castle quarter to Llanishen's medieval inn, the porches of Roath, the top of Garth Hill and the sculpture trail in the woods above Tongwynlais.

Further Reading

4 Blogs for Cardiff

  1. 01 The oldest pub in Cardiff dicmortimer.com · Dic Mortimer By the author of Cardiff: The Biography, who has written the potted history of nearly every pub in the city. Nobody else lists the survivors in order of age, with their original names. Strongly opinionated on everything else.
  2. 02 Roath Porch Tiles roathlocalhistorysociety.org A volunteer society, going since 1978, that maps the street-level heritage of inner-east Cardiff: porch tiles, pillar boxes, small parks. Things no visitor guide covers.
  3. 03 The 5 best family-friendly walks in and around Cardiff this winter buzzmag.co.uk · Megan Tomos Cardiff's own free culture magazine since 1991. For walks it points to the edges of the city, Garth Hill and the Salmon Leaps, which city-centre guides skip.
  4. 04 Free Things To Do and Explore in Cardiff visitcardiff.com The city tourism team's own list of free things, which reaches further than most, out to Insole Court in Llandaff and the Fforest Fawr sculpture trail.

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