Historic Cities
Walk Cardiff in 1300
AI rebuilds Caerdyf (Cardiff) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Norman Cardiff, 1300
Cardiff in 1300 is a compact Norman lordship town clustered where the River Taff meets the Bristol Channel, its shell keep crowning a great motte within older Roman walls. The walk moves from the tidal quays and packed market to the grid of burgage plots, friaries and parish towers, finishing on the keep with a view over the Vale farmers who bring goods to town.
33 scenes — 20 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Cardiff as it stood in 1300 (“History of Cardiff”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Bristol Channel Shore
- 2. River Taff Mouth
- 3. The Key Quay
- 4. Quayside Warehouses
- ↳ Hides and Wool Bay · interior
- 5. Wharf Stairs
- ↳ Cooper's Workshop · interior
- 6. West Gate
- 7. Town Walls
- ↳ Wall Guardroom · interior
- 8. High Street
- ↳ Draper's Shop · interior
- 9. Burgage Rows
- ↳ Wool-Carder's Cottage · interior
- 10. Market Place
- ↳ Market Granary · interior
- 11. St Mary's Church
- 12. Womanby Street
- ↳ Alehouse Taproom · interior
- 13. Blackfriars
- ↳ Friary Choir · interior
- 14. Greyfriars
- ↳ Friary Refectory · interior
- 15. St John's Tower
- ↳ Parish Chancel · interior
- 16. Castle Bailey
- ↳ Great Hall · interior
- 17. Mill Lane
- ↳ Miller's Wheelhouse · interior
- 18. East Gate
- 19. Road to the Vale
- 20. Shell Keep Summit
- ↳ Lord's Solar · interior