Great House Farm — Name & Location Variations

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Identity lock: This page indexes the historical property now known as Great House Farm, beside St Dochdwy’s Church at Llandough-juxta-Penarth, around NGR ST16707335 / NPRN 20182.

Critical place-separation rule: Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr and Llandough Farm (the farm described by Amgueddfa Cymru as “Llandough Farm (opposite hospital)”) are two separate farmsteads in the Llandough near Penarth/Cardiff locality. The latter is not a spelling, alias, historical name, parcel, building name or former name of Great House Farm. A record saying “Llandough Farm” must therefore not be routed to Great House Farm merely because both are in Llandough. The Wiki treats the two as separate identities unless a primary record expressly connects them.

Visual map: Great House Farm — Nomenclature & Identity Map

Use the dedicated nomenclature controls: Building Name Nomenclature — property/building spellings · Location Name Nomenclature — Llandough/town/location spellings · Farmhouse Nomenclature · Parcel A · Parcel B · The Farm / Whole Farm.

Historical documents, surveys, maps, newspapers and later records use more than one name or spelling. The identity terms below are retained so that researchers can find older forms and test them against the evidence. They are not all aliases. In particular, “Church Farm / Llandough Church Farm” is a source-specific term whose identity is unresolved, while Llandough Farm (opposite hospital) is a separate farmstead in the same Llandough near Penarth/Cardiff locality and is not a Great House Farm name variant. ^🕒

Property-name variations and source-specific terms

Great House Farm — principal modern/historical name used by the Wiki and the Heneb/GGAT record GGAT02038s.
Great House — historical short form used in the heritage record and historical descriptions of the farmhouse.
Tŷ Mawr — Welsh form “Great House”; used in the Wiki and family/historical material for the same Great House Farm subject.
Ty Mawr Farm — unaccented form appearing in archival cataloguing. The NLW Bute Estate catalogue expressly records “Cydfin Farm or Ty Mawr Farm, (107 a.)”.
Church Farm / Llandough Church Farm — SOURCE TERM, IDENTITY UNRESOLVED. This wording occurs in Amgueddfa Cymru’s 63.24 provenance for the c.1858 medieval ironwork and in the 22 November 1931 letter. It is not an established alias of Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr. The Wiki no longer collapses it into Great House Farm merely because Great House Farm stands beside St Dochdwy’s Church. Nor does absence of a separate “Church Farm” entry in a place-name database prove that the 1858 findspot was the Great House Farm building. Until a period deed, plan, estate record or other independent source identifies “Church Farm”, it remains a source-specific term whose location and relationship to Great House Farm are unresolved. This term must not be used to merge the separate Llandough Farm (opposite hospital) into Great House Farm. ^🕒
Cydfin Farm — spelling used in the National Library of Wales Bute Estate catalogue for the 107-acre farm in its Llandough manorial-leases series (D219).
Cedfin — spelling recorded in the Wiki research corpus from David Stewart’s 1824 Bute Estate survey. The survey itself should be inspected for the original handwriting/plan wording before this is treated as an independently verified documentary variant.
Cedfyn — variant spelling retained as a research/search form. No independent primary occurrence has yet been located online; do not treat it as a proven documentary spelling without the underlying source. ^🕒
Cedwyn — variant spelling recorded in the research corpus in connection with 16th-century Llandough freehold/Vaughan material. The underlying source should be checked before treating the spelling as independently verified.
Cefin — variant retained for search completeness and historical-name investigation. A primary occurrence tied to Great House remains to be confirmed.

Building/function descriptions

Farmhouse / farm house — functional descriptions of the principal dwelling at Great House Farm.
Manor house — a historical/interpretive description requiring context; the HER establishes that manorial courts for Llandough and Leckwith were held in Great House, but that does not make every use of “manor house” a documentary title of the building.
Coach house — functional/building term to be used where a source specifically identifies the relevant outbuilding; it is not adopted here as a standalone proven historical property name.

Location-name variations

Llandough-juxta-Penarth — preferred historical locator for this project.
Llandough near Penarth — modern descriptive locator.
Llandough near Cardiff — modern descriptive locator used to distinguish this site from other Llandoughs.
Llandough, Penarth — modern search/location form.
Llandough, Cardiff — modern search/location form used in some archaeological references.
Landoche-juxta-Cardif — historical spelling found in Cardiff Records for the manor of Llandough; used here only as a historical locator variant, not as proof that a particular tenement in that record was Great House.
Llandough / Leckwith — neighbouring parish/manorial context. This is a location relationship, not an alternative name for Great House Farm.

Location identifiers

Heneb/GGAT HER: GGAT02038s — Great House Farm.
RCAHMW/NPRN: NPRN 20182 — Great House Farm.
Grid references appearing in the research: ST16707335; ST1681 7331. The Wiki uses the HER-associated ST16707335 as the primary identity control.
Later development address: Church View Close, CF64 2NN.

Evidence for the naming problem

Church Farm / Great House Farm: the Museum’s 63.24 provenance uses “Llandough Church Farm” for the c.1858 find, while Heneb/GGAT places Great House Farm immediately beside St Dochdwy’s Church. The RCAHMW Historic Place Names of Wales search returned no “Church Farm” entry in Llandough parish. On that combined evidence the Wiki now treats Church Farm as an alias/descriptive name of Great House Farm, while recording the exact documentary history of the name as unresolved. ^🕒
NLW Bute Estate Records D219: the catalogue covers “Llandough manorial leases and agreements”, 1552–1829, and expressly identifies leases of “Cydfin Farm or Ty Mawr Farm, (107 a.)”, 1552–1824.
David Stewart’s 1824 survey: the Wiki research corpus records the form Cedfin for Great House Farm. The exact “Cedfin” wording remains a document-level verification target.
16th-century Llandough freehold material: the research corpus associates the historical name Cedwyn with the earlier Great House/Vaughan line; the underlying property document needs to be checked before this is elevated beyond a research lead.

Disambiguation — never merge these with the project site

Llandough near Cowbridge / Llandough Castle / St Mary Church / Penrice and Margam “Manors of Llandough and St Mary Church” are treated as a different historical locality unless a document independently proves a connection to the Penarth-area site. Llandough Farm is also kept separate from Great House Farm / Church Farm. Likewise, unrelated Ty Mawr, Great House, Great House Farm and Cydfin/Cefin names elsewhere in Wales are not imported merely because the names match.

Canonical linking rule: wherever this Wiki mentions one of the historical property-name variants in connection with this project, link to Building Name Nomenclature and use the exact anchor where useful. For a town/locality variant, link to Location Name Nomenclature and use the exact anchor. Use Great House Farm as the principal site-history page.

Cross-reference — Cedwyn / Cydfin place-name evidence: References on this page to variants such as Cedwyn, Cydfin, Cedfin, Cydwin or Tŷ Mawr should be read alongside the GHF-E173 complete reference index and, where relevant, the Llandough (Penarth) pre-1877 manorial evidence page. Name similarity is a research lead, not proof of identical location, boundaries, ownership or title.