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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dinas Powys like this:
DINAS-POWIS, a village and a hundred in Glamorgan. The village stands 4½ miles SW of Cardiff; and has a post office under Cardiff, and remains of a castle built by Jestyn ab Gwrgan. The hundred lies around the village; and contains twenty-seven parishes. Acres, 40, 601. Pop., 7, 661. Houses, 1, 434.
Dinas Powys is now part of THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN District. Click here for graphs and data of how THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dinas Powys itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dinas Powys, in The Vale of Glamorgan and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20895
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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