The estate and the parcels¶
The wider estate, its woods and valleys, and the parcels the farm was later divided into each carry several names and numbers. A title number or a plan number is a name for a piece of land, not proof of who held it. Parcels A and B are our labels for the two parts of the farm, used throughout our case.
The Cedwyn estate¶
Cetguinn (lann cetguinn; cum cetguinn) · 12th-century manuscript
Source: Book of Llandaf, pp. 202 and 279, in Evans and Rhys, The Text of the Book of Llan Dav (1893)
Written by: Scribes of the Book of Llandaf
Status: record
Our note: The Old Welsh form of the personal name Cedwyn. Neither place is Llandough: it shows the name, not this estate.
Cwm Cedwyn · 1392 (reported)
Source: Llandough boundary notes in the research corpus
Written by: Research corpus (family and Wiki notes)
Status: SOURCE PENDING
Our note: The boundary record has not been found. A place name in the landscape, not a name of the house.
Cydwin · 1547 (reported)
Source: Family research note: 1,000-year lease to Vaughan (EV-0002)
Written by: Family research note
Status: Under forensic examination
Our note: Document not held. Under forensic examination; not a record of Tŷ Mawr (first named in the 1824 David Stewart survey, EV-0211).
Cydfin Farm or Ty Mawr Farm, (107 a.) · No Tŷ Mawr date: the range 1552–1824 is the Bute catalogue’s
Source: NLW Bute Estate Records D219 catalogue
Written by: National Library of Wales cataloguer (Bute Estate Records)
Status: Under forensic examination (application and dating)
Our note: A Bute estate catalogue entry. Its heading and its date range are the cataloguer’s; the leases have not been read. It is not a dated mention of Tŷ Mawr, and its application to Tŷ Mawr and its dating are under forensic examination. Tŷ Mawr is first named in a record we have found in the 1824 David Stewart survey (EV-0211).
Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm · 1824
Source: Stewart’s 1824 Bute survey, plan 19 (EV-0211)
Written by: David Stewart, surveyor, for the Marquess of Bute
Status: record
Cwm Cydfin, Nant Cydfin (Leckwith) · 1898–1908
Source: Ordnance Survey second edition, in the List of Historic Place Names of Wales (RCAHMW)
Written by: Ordnance Survey
Status: record
Our note: The dell and brook on the Ely between Leckwith and Llandough.
Cwm Cydfin Wood · 29 Nov 1902
Source: Bute coppice-woods sale (EV-0219)
Written by: Bute estate (catalogue or sale particulars)
Status: catalogue
Nant Cedwyn, Cwm Cedwyn · 1908
Source: S. Baring-Gould and J. Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints, vol. II, p. 98
Written by: S. Baring-Gould and J. Fisher
Status: secondary
Our note: Places the brook and the dell at the same spot the Ordnance Survey marks as Nant Cydfin and Cwm Cydfin.
Cwm Cydfin, Leckwith (SSSI 0524) · 1972, 1985
Source: Natural Resources Wales citation and boundary record (Legal Wiki EV-0218)
Written by: Natural Resources Wales
Status: record
Cwm Cydffin SSSI · 2020
Source: Natural Resources Wales, Dinas Powys flood scheme report
Written by: Natural Resources Wales
Status: record
Our note: The double-f spelling matches Welsh cydffin, a common boundary.
Cedwyn Estate · —
Source: The family’s and the Wiki’s working name
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
Our note: No period record using “Cedwyn Estate” has been catalogued: SOURCE PENDING for a record.
Parcel A¶
Plan N5 · 6 Nov 1877
Source: 6 Nov 1877 counterpart, Bute trustees to John Williams, Plan N5 (as listed in requests to Glamorgan Archives)
Written by: Glamorgan Archives cataloguer
Status: SOURCE PENDING
Our note: Named in a records request.
Parcel A · —
Source: The Wiki’s two-parcel reconstruction (primary analytical label)
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
Our note: Not a word from a period record. The records describe this land in their own terms (house, garden, woods, VG41).
house parcel · —
Source: The Wiki’s shorthand for the whole house/quarrying parcel
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
house-side parcel · —
Source: The Wiki’s label distinguishing Parcel A from Parcel B
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
Parcel B¶
Parcel B · —
Source: The Wiki’s two-parcel reconstruction (primary analytical label)
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
Our note: Not a word from a period record.
eastern fields / fields to the east · —
Source: The Wiki’s descriptive labels
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
The whole farm (Parcels A and B together)¶
whole farm · 1955 (reported)
Source: Wording in the 1955 record as described by the Wiki
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: SOURCE PENDING
Our note: The Wiki describes the wording; the 1955 document’s exact words are not quoted there.
the whole of the farm · 31 Jul 1987
Source: Court of Appeal 1987: BP Properties Ltd “registered as the proprietors of the whole of the farm … in November 1982” (EV-0080)
Written by: Court of Appeal (judgment)
Status: record
Parcels A and B · —
Source: The Wiki’s analytical description
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
The woodland¶
Cwm Cydfin Wood (Leckwith and Llandough) · 29 Nov 1902
Source: Bute coppice-woods auction, Stephenson & Alexander records, Glamorgan Archives DSA/3/192 and DSA/12/1003 (EV-0219)
Written by: Glamorgan Archives cataloguer
Status: catalogue
Leckwith Woods · 1940–1942
Source: Cardiff Parks history page citing Cardiff committee minutes: c.109 acres given by Western Ground Rents, 1940–42 (EV-0220)
Written by: Cardiff Council (parks history page)
Status: secondary
Our note: Minutes not seen. Overlap with the farm’s woodland not established.
Cwm Cydfin SSSI · 1972
Source: Site of Special Scientific Interest 0524, notified 1972 and 9 Dec 1985 (5.5 ha)
Written by: Nature Conservancy Council / Natural Resources Wales
Status: record
the woodland (title WA735527) · 10 Nov 1994
Source: Transfer of the woodland to Forest of Cardiff, with plan (EV-0136)
Written by: Conveyancing parties (transfer deed)
Status: catalogue
Our note: Deed not yet held.
forest north of the house · —
Source: The Wiki’s description of part of Parcel A
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
the woods / the forest · —
Source: Common wording in the Wiki and correspondence
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
The green (VG41) and Church View Close¶
VG41 (village green) · register (1965 Act)
Source: Register of town or village greens, Commons Registration Act 1965 (EV-0232 notes the 1983 Act did not touch it)
Written by: Registration authority (village greens register)
Status: record
village green · 23 Feb 1990
Source: South Wales Echo, 23 Feb 1990, p.1: the community council “wanted the land registered as village green” (EV-0273)
Written by: South Wales Echo (reporter)
Status: record (snippet only)
Church View Close, CF64 · after 3 Dec 1993
Source: Address of the 20 houses built after Ideal Homes Wales bought from BP on 3 Dec 1993 (Reparations Schedule; planning 92/00671/RES)
Written by: Planning officer (local authority)
Status: record
Our note: A modern street address on former farm land.
LLANDOUGH VILLAGE GREEN · 12 Jan 1994
Source: Ideal Homes Wales planting plan: green “to be maintained by LLANDOUGH COMMUNITY COUNCIL and to form part of project GATEWAY TO THE VALE” (EV-0133)
Written by: Ideal Homes Wales (developer)
Status: record
ground south-east of the house · —
Source: The Wiki’s description (corrected 27 Oct 2026: the green lies outside Parcel A; the Parcel A line ends before the green begins)
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
the green · —
Source: Common wording in the Wiki and correspondence
Written by: Our Legal Wiki (analytical label)
Status: wiki label
Land Registry title numbers¶
VG41 · 1965 Act register
Source: Village green register unit (not a freehold title)
Written by: Registration authority (village greens register)
Status: record
WA231076 · 30 Nov 1982
Source: First registration applied for 30 Nov 1982 (BP); per HMLR, one of two titles under which “Ty Mawr Farm was originally registered”
Written by: HM Land Registry
Status: record
WA240304 · 23 Feb 1983
Source: Separate title for the farmhouse: Form 1C by Linklaters & Paines, register edition 23 Feb 1983; closed into WA231076 on 2 Feb 1987 (EV-0063)
Written by: Linklaters & Paines (for the BP companies)
Status: record
WA735527 · 10 Nov 1994
Source: The woodland: transfer to Forest of Cardiff, 10 Nov 1994 (EV-0136); 2005 excision to Goldsworthy Homes (EV-0139)
Written by: HM Land Registry / conveyancing parties
Status: record
WA513690 · —
Source: Named with the other titles in preservation notices sent in 2026
Written by: The family (preservation notices)
Status: SOURCE PENDING
Our note: What this title covers is not yet stated in a record on the Wiki.
CYM265133 / CYM349627 · 2 Dec 2005
Source: Titles from the 2 Dec 2005 Forest of Cardiff → Goldsworthy Homes transfer
Written by: HM Land Registry / conveyancing parties
Status: record
Our note: Their relation to Parcel A is not established.
Field, plot and plan numbers¶
plan 19 · 1824
Source: Stewart’s 1824 Bute survey: plan 19, “Cedfin or Ty Mawr Farm” (EV-0211)
Written by: David Stewart, surveyor, for the Marquess of Bute
Status: record
Plan N5 · 6 Nov 1877
Source: 6 Nov 1877 counterpart, Bute trustees to John Williams
Written by: Bute estate (catalogue or sale particulars)
Status: SOURCE PENDING
Our note: Plan not held.
OS 35/2503 · catalogue
Source: Ordnance Survey object name book, TNA OS 35/2503 (EV-0252)
Written by: Ordnance Survey
Status: catalogue
Our note: An archive reference, not a field number.
Enclosure 106, OS Glamorgan Sheet XLVII.6 (1941 Edition) · 11 Jun 1965
Source: 1965 conveyance of the Llandough school site, 3.352 acres (EV-0042)
Written by: The conveyancing parties and their solicitors
Status: record
Our note: The school site, sold by Western Ground Rents “with other property”. Not shown to be farm land.
OS 57 “Llandough Farm” (1.203a) · 11 Jun 1965
Source: Plan of the 1965 school-site conveyance (EV-0042)
Written by: The conveyancing parties and their solicitors
Status: record
Our note: The separate Llandough Farm. Cuts against routing this number to Great House Farm.
Part of O.S. Nos. 3203 and 3409 Cogan · 1 Aug 1972
Source: London Gazette, 1 Aug 1972, p.9174, HM Land Registry notice (EV-0231)
Written by: HM Land Registry
Status: record
Our note: Whether this was farm land is not yet shown in a record.