The electoral ward of Caerau falls within the parliamentary constituency of Cardiff West. It is bounded by Ely to the northwest; Canton to the northeast; and the Vale of Glamorgan to the south. Caerau has been represented by Labour councillors Peter Bradbury and Elaine Simmons since May 2012.

Guide to Caerau, Glamorgan ancestry, family history, and genealogy: civil registration, census records, and parish register transcripts. Alternate spelling: Caerau with Ely. For more information on Caerau see Caerau at GENUKI. Pop. Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online.

Caerau is an ancient parish in the Kibbor hundred of Glamorgan that forms a suburb in the west of Cardiff. Heol Trelai is the main road or avenue, lined with large trees. Dominated mostly by private housing, it has the Western Leisure Centre, supermarkets, schools and churches.

Caerau Hillfort is the third largest Iron Age hillfort in Glamorgan, [3] enclosing 5.1 hectares (13 acres), and is surrounded by housing and the A4232. It was once a stronghold of the powerful Silures tribe who inhabited this part of Wales before the arrival of the Romans.

Caira, Cairau, or Caerau, a village and a parish in Glamorgan, on the Julian Way, near St Fagans station on the G.W.R., 3½ miles W of Cardiff, which is the post town. Acreage of the civil parish, 773; population, 187; of the ecclesiastical, 881.

2014年9月3日 · Ever wondered how Caerau got its name? CHP Historian Mel Julian-Jones explores some possibilities, with remarkable results... As a Medievalist specialising in the thirteenth century, I was very excited to be asked to research the medieval life of Caerau for the CAER Heritage Project.

Caerau is an electoral ward in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. It covers part of the town of Maesteg. The ward elects two councillors to Bridgend County Borough Council. The ward covers the northern part of Maesteg, including the former mining village of …

Enclosing an area of more than 5 hectares (7 football pitches), Caerau Hillfort, is by far the largest Iron Age hillfort in south Glamorgan. It occupies the western tip of an extensive ridge of land that is now cut through by the West Cardiff M4 link road …

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Caerau like this: CAIRA, Cairau, or Caerau, a parish in Cardiff district, Glamorgan; on the Julian way and the South Wales railway, near St. Fagans station, 3½ miles …

"ELY is a hamlet attached in 1871 for ecclesiastical purposes to the parish of Caerau, and is 1 mile southwest, with a station on the Cardiff section of the Great Western railway, 158 miles from London. The church of St. David, a chapel of ease to Caerau, built in 1871, is a plain building of local stone, in the Gothic style, ... there are 230 ...