Bute Street, Cardiff

It runs from the dockside of the Mermaid Quay complex in the south, which is now a pedestrian zone, to the junction of Bute Terrace (A4160) in the north.

What is today Bute Street was previously mostly meadow and marshland called Soudrey, the Cardiff south moors.

[1] The 2nd Marquess of Bute realised in the 1820s that the Glamorganshire Canal was not sufficient to cope with the demands of the iron trade and initiated a development plan.

This plan included the construction of Bute Street as a main road in and out of the docks area and it was completed in 1830.

It was from near this site that the very first train in South Wales ran in October 1840, when the TVR opened the line to Abercynon.

Bilingual English–Welsh street sign on Bute Street
Bute Street with the Butetown Branch Line to the right
How the southern end of Bute Street once looked
113–116 Bute Street, formerly the National Westminster Bank building
Cory's Building
The former Cardiff Bay Railway Station
Mermaid Quay at the south end of Bute Street