Butetown
Butetown is a district and community in the south of the city of Cardiff, the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early 19th century by the 2nd Marquess of Bute, for whose title the area was named.Places of Interest
Highlights include Butetown Community Centre and Millennium Stadium.
Millennium Stadium
Stadium
The Millennium Stadium, known since 2016 as the Principality Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is the national stadium of Wales in Cardiff. It has a retractable roof and a usual capacity of 73,931.
Cardiff Bay railway station
Railway station
Cardiff Bay railway station, formerly Cardiff Bute Road, is a station serving the Cardiff Bay and Butetown areas of Cardiff, Wales. It is the southern terminus of the Butetown branch line 1 mile south of Cardiff Queen Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newtown and Cardiff Bay.
Newtown
Neighborhood
Newtown was a residential area of Cardiff, Wales that was also known as 'Little Ireland' because of its population of Irish families. Its six streets and 200 houses existed from the mid-nineteenth century until they were demolished in 1970.
Cardiff Bay
Suburb
Cardiff Bay is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary, it is the river mouth of the River Taff and Ely.
Grangetown
Suburb
Grangetown is a district and community in the south of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is one of the largest districts in the south of the city and is bordered by Riverside, Canton and Butetown.
Butetown
- Type: Suburb with 12,100 residents
- Description: district and community in Cardiff, Wales
- Categories: district, community, and locality
- Location: Butetown, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.46984° or 51° 28′ 11″ north
Longitude
-3.17018° or 3° 10′ 13″ west
Population
12,100
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
Open location code
9C3RFR9H+WW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Butetown from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Butetown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Butetown”
- Breton: “Butetown”
- Breton: “Tre-biwt”
- Catalan: “Butetown”
- Cebuano: “Butetown”
- Chinese: “Butetown”
- Chinese: “布特敦”
- Cornish: “Butetown”
- Cornish: “Tre-biwt”
- French: “Butetown”
- German: “Butetown”
- Irish: “Butetown”
- Irish: “Tre-biwt”
- Irish: “Tre-Biwt”
- Japanese: “ビュートタウン”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Butetown”
- Russian: “Бьютаун”
- Russian: “Бютаун”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Butetown”
- Swedish: “Butetown”
- Welsh: “Butetown”
- Welsh: “Tre Bute”
- Welsh: “Tre-biwt”
- Welsh: “Tre-Biwt”
- Welsh: “Trebiwt”
- Welsh: “y Drenewydd”
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