Cwm George, Michaelston Le Pitt. Photograph © Mark Warnes

Michaelston-Le-Pit - From 'A Topographical Dictionary of Wales' (1849)
MICHAELSTON-LE-PIT, a parish, in the union of Cardiff, hundred of Dinas-Powys, county of Glamorgan, South Wales, 4½ miles (S. W. by W.) from the town of Cardiff; containing 93 inhabitants. Lias and mountain limestone, together with lead-ore, are found in this small parish, which is exclusively agricultural, and presents some fine well-wooded inclosures. Courtyrala, an Italian villa here, the seat of T. B. Rouse, Esq., is pleasantly situated above a stream artificially widened and improved, over which a rustic bridge has been formed, amid scenery of the most romantic character; the grounds are disposed with great taste, and disclose, at various points of view, the most admired scenes of the adjacent country. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £4. 10. 7½., and endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant; patron, Mr. Rouse. The tithes have been commuted for a rentcharge of £70, and the glebe comprises more than forty-seven acres, valued at £20 per annum; twentyfive acres of the glebe are woodland. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. A small Sunday school is held in it. On the summit of a hill in the parish are vestiges of an earthwork, supposed to be of Roman construction.