FAGAN (St.), a village and a parish in Cardiff district, Glamorgan. The village stands on the river Ely, adjacent to the South Wales railway, 4 miles W of Cardiff; was almost rebuilt by the late Hon. R. W. Clive; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Cardiff. The parish comprises 2, 241 acres. Real property, £2, 717; of which £12 are in quarries. Pop., 506. Houses, 101. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, in the 12th century, to Sir Peter de Vele; passed to the Gibbons and the Lewises; and came to Earl Amhurst. A castellated mansion, at the village, was built by Sir Peter de Vele; a square, high-gabled, picturesque house, within that mansion's court, was built by the Gibbons; and this is now the seat of Baroness Windsor. A battle, between an insurgent army of about 8, 000 and the army of Cromwell, was fought at St. Fagan in 1648. The living is a rectory, united with the p. curacy of Llanilterne, in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £417.* Patron, the Dowager Countess Amhurst. The church was restored, in 1860, at a cost of £2, 000.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))