Riverside ( cy, Glan yr Afon) is an

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area and

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Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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, next to the

River Taff The River Taff ( cy, Afon Taf) is a river in Wales. It rises as two rivers in the Brecon Beacons; the Taf Fechan (''little Taff'') and the Taf Fawr (''great Taff'') before becoming one just north of Merthyr Tydfil. Its confluence with the R ...

Riverside Riverside may refer to: Places Australia * Riverside, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston, Tasmania Canada * Riverside (electoral district), in the Yukon * Riverside, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Alberta * Riverside, Manitoba, a former rural m ...

is also the name of the

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, which includes the district of

Pontcanna Pontcanna () is a district and community in the city of Cardiff, Wales. It is located a short distance to the west of the city centre, and its borders are approximately indicated by Western Avenue, the River Taff, Cowbridge Road East, Llandaff R ...

, to the north. The population of the community in 2011 was 13,771. Pontcanna was removed from the community in 2016.

Description

Riverside consists mainly of terraced houses and until 2016 the community included the grand houses of Pontcanna and lining Cathedral Road. The area has a diverse population including

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and

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heritage, particularly to the south of Cowbridge Road and around Tudor Street. Riverside has a number of Chinese,

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, and Indian shops selling a range of foods. Because of its close proximity to the Principality Stadium and the city centre, Riverside has become a focus for Cardiff's rapidly expanding budget accommodation sector, with two

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hostels in close proximity of Fitzhamon Embankment. In addition to the two public gardens in Riverside, Despenser Gardens and Clare Gardens, Riverside residents use

Sophia Gardens Sophia Gardens ( cy, Gerddi Sophia) is a public park in Riverside, Cardiff, Wales, on the west bank of the River Taff. International test cricket matches and county cricket matches are held in the Sophia Gardens cricket ground, the home of ...

immediately to the north. Sophia Gardens was once in Riverside, and was the first home ground of

Cardiff City F.C. Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

, who in their early years were Riverside A.F.C.

Welsh language

The 2011 census recorded that 1,475 people in the Riverside community could speak Welsh (13.7% of the population over three years old), a small rise on the 2001 census. The former HTV television studios in nearby Pontcanna, which produced Welsh language programmes, was a boost to the language locally.

Government

The

is in the

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of Cardiff West. It is bounded by the wards of

Gabalfa Gabalfa (, ) is a district and community in the north of the city of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is characterised by a four-lane fly over road at the Gabalfa Interchange, where the A48 road meets the A470 road (North Road) which leads from Car ...

to the north;

Cathays Cathays ( ; Welsh: officially ''Cathays'' but also , 'the constant meadow') is a district and community in the centre of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is an old suburb of Cardiff established in 1875. It is very densely populated and contains ma ...

to the east; Grangetown to the south; and Canton and

Llandaff Llandaff (; cy, Llandaf ; from 'church' and '' Taf'') is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It was incorporated into the city in 1922. It is the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, whose ...

to the west. Until 2016 the Riverside local government community included Pontcanna to the north, these districts now have separate community status. However, neither Riverside or

have a

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Local organisations

Riverside Real Food Market began as a Christmas Market in 1998 in a nearby park.Alison Young
"Cardiff’s Riverside Market"
''South Wales Echo'', 8 January 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2013. The market moved to the wide pavement of Fitzhamon Embankment beside the

, and has stalls from up to thirty retailers every Sunday.

Notable people

* Ivor Novello (1893–1951), composer, singer and actor, born in a house on Cowbridge Road East *

Tessie O'Shea Teresa Mary "Tessie" O'Shea (13 March 1913 – 21 April 1995) was a Wales, Welsh entertainer and actress. Early life O'Shea was born in Plantagenet Street in Riverside, Cardiff to newspaper wholesaler James Peter O'Shea, who had been a soldie ...

(1913–1995), entertainer, born in Plantagenet Street

References

External links

www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Riverside and surrounding area

Riverside Market
{{Communities of Cardiff Communities in Cardiff