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===Development from the 18th century=== Many residents of Radyr worked in the [[Melingriffith Tin Plate Works]], on the other side of the River Taff in Whitchurch.<ref name="Memories"/> The works opened in 1749 and closed in 1957.<ref name="tinworks">{{cite news |url=http://www.whitchurchandllandaff.co.uk/Melingriffith.htm |title=It's goodbye to Griffith's Mill |last=Pride |first=W.E. |date=30 July 1957 |newspaper=[[Western Mail (Wales)|Western Mail]] |access-date=5 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421084347/http://whitchurchandllandaff.co.uk/Melingriffith.htm |archive-date=21 April 2009 }}</ref> [[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]]' 1849 ''Topographical Dictionary of Wales'' says of Radyr:<ref>{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Samuel |author-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |year=1849 |title=A Topographical Dictionary of Wales |location=London |publisher=Samuel Lewis & Co |chapter=Radyr – Rhuddlan |pages=345–356 |chapter-url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47882}}</ref> <blockquote>"A parish, in the poorlaw union of Cardiff, hundred of Kibbor, county of Glamorgan, in South Wales, 3½ miles (N. W. by W.) from Cardiff; containing 279 inhabitants. This parish probably derives its name, signifying "a cataract," from the rushing waters of the river Tâf, by which it is bounded on the north-east. It was formerly comprehended within the hundred of Miskin, but has been recently separated therefrom. It comprises about eleven hundred acres of arable and pasture land, inclosed and in a profitable state of cultivation: the surface is in some parts elevated, and in others flat, but nowhere subject to inundation; the soil is a strong brown earth, favourable to the production of good crops of grain of all kinds, potatoes, and hay. The substratum is partly a hard brown stone, and partly limestone of very good quality. Radyr Court, formerly the seat of the family of Matthew, ancestors of the late Lord Llandaf, has been partially taken down, and the remainder has been modernised, and converted into a farmhouse. The turnpike-road leading from Cardiff to Llantrissent passes a little to the south of the parish; and the Tâf-Vale railway runs through it, nearly parallel with the river, which is crossed by the line in this vicinity. Some of the inhabitants are employed at the iron-works in the parish of Pentyrch.</blockquote> <blockquote>''The living is a vicarage, endowed with £200 royal bounty; patron and impropriator, the representative of the late Earl of Plymouth, who is lord of the manor: the tithes have been commuted for £113. 9s. 0d, of which a sum of £38. 9s. 0d is payable to the impropriator, and a sum of £75 to the vicar. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a neat plain edifice, with a curious turret at the west end. There is a place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists; a Sunday school for gratuitous instruction is held in it, and another at Radyr Court. In the parish is a spring of very cold water, called Y Pistyll Goleu, "the bright water-spout," issuing from the side of a hill, under a considerable depth of earth over a limestone rock: it has by some writers been termed mineral, but it is not known to possess any other properties than that of its extreme coldness, which renders it efficacious in curing sprains and weakness of the sinews."'' </blockquote> Until the mid 19th century Radyr was a collection of small farms, crofts and cottages, but after [[Radyr railway station]] opened in 1863,<ref>{{cite book |last=Hutton |first=John |title=The Taff Vale Railway |volume=1 |location=KEttering |publisher=Silver more than |year=2006 |isbn =978-1-85794-249-1}}</ref> the population rose from 400 to more than 600 in 20 years.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Radyr/population.html |title=Population Statistics for Radyr |access-date=28 June 2008}}</ref> The [[Taff Vale Railway]] and its successor, the [[Great Western Railway]], brought significant employment to Radyr. Junction Terrace (the first street in Radyr) was built to house the railway workers. It was the start of strong demand for housing in Radyr that transformed the hamlet.<ref name=TC&G/> The [[Barry Railway]]'s [[Walnut Tree Viaduct]], built in 1901, dominated the village for some 70 years.
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