Cardiff Records, Volume II, Chapter I
NOTES ON THE MANORS OF THE CARDIFF DISTRICT
Transcribed by Pat Sewell 1995
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Last Modified: 9 April 1996
Note: Cartae = G. T. Clark's "Cartae et alia munimenta quae
ad Dominium de Glamorgan pertinent"
MANOR OF LLANDOUGH
Llandough parish is situate on the eastern slope of the Leckwith
range, and is bounded on the south by the parish of Cogan.
It is supposed to have been the seat of an Abbey in very early times. The
Abbot "Sancti Docunni" is frequently referred to in the Liber
Landavensis.
1106. "The little vill which is called Landochan" was confirmed
to Tewkesbury Abbey by King Henry I. (Cartae III., p. 39.) There can be
little doubt that the original grant was by Fitz-Hamon.
1275 (c). Walter Thorgot granted to William de Regni a messuage in Landoch,
lying on the south side of the church of Saint Doguin, near the cemetery,
to hold the Abbot of Tewkesbury.
(Cartae I., p. 182.) The de Reigny family purchased a large number of small
holdings in Llandough and adjoining parishes about this time. Nearly 60
conveyances to them exist.
1290 (c). Maurice de Landoch made a grant of Cogan Moor to Margam Abbey.
(see manor of Cogan.)
1535. The Valor Ecclesiaticus shews that the manor of Llandough Est belonged
to the Abbot of Tewkesbury, who there had free and villein tenants paying
rents of assize.
1543. King Henry VIII. granted Llandough manor to Lord Clynton and Say and
Robert Turwitt. By the year 1545 it had been acquired by Sir George Herbert,
as appears by a rent-roll of that date.
Sir George Herbert appears to have conveyed the manor to Sir William Herbert,
his grandson.
1596. The manor of Landoche-juxta-Cardif had free tenants, demesnes and
copyholds. (Abbreviate.)
The subsequent history of Llandough is the same as that of Cogan. It was
purchased in 1793 by the Earl of Bute, and the Marquess of Bute is the present
lord.