Llanrumney Hall of Cardiff

Llanrumney (Llanrhymni) Hall is situated at the end ofthe headless body of Llewellyn.
a large playing field on Ball road off LlanrumneyThere are several strange stories about Llanrumney
avenue opposite eastern leisure centre. It is situatedHall. Locals will tell you its haunted and many children
about 5 miles of Cardiff city centre and on the bankswill not go near it and exchange ghost stories as to
of the River Rumney close to the Bluebell andhow he was killed at the Hall by being chopped into
Squires woodlands along with the 33-acre internationalsmall pieces and plastered around his house. And now
standard university playing fields.that his headless ghost would ride across the field
Llanrumney used to be a small village situatedwith his head tucked under his arms. Many locals
between Newport and Cardiff but now it's thewould say that it is the Prince Llewellyn, the last price
eastern part of Cardiff. Llanrumney Hall was, untilof Wales who is actually buried at Llanrumey Hall
recently, the mansion of a 700-acre estate believedafter being beheaded. This is seconded by the Abbey
to be a monastery owned by the Kemys family ofCwmhir Heritage Trust and the Welsh historical
Cefn Mably later acquired by Captain Morgan, asociety.
native of Wales and Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1726.It's now run as a great pub frequented by locals. It's
Later the estate and the house as taken up by agot an L-shaped bar with a pool table in the middle
history professor called E. A. Freeman and then latteralong with bed and breakfast. It has all its original
by Charles Crofts Williams of Roath Court in 1859features, Morgans table, gothic windows,
and then to Llewellyn, the "Prince of Wales". It wasplasterwork, a plaque in the Hall commemorating
rebuilt in 1852 and refurbished at around 1900. TodayHenry Morgan and even paintings. It also comprises
it stands amidst the estate built in the 1950's. It isof a large function hall that can be hired for private
supposedly rumored to contain a masonry block withget-togethers such as children's parties.