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Radyr is an outer suburb of Cardiff.The suburb is situated  in the west of the city, although it was originally a separate village, and is located around 5 miles (8 kilometres) north west of Cardiff city centre. The population was recorded at 4,658 according to the 2001 Census. Radyr is administratively linked to the adjacent community of Morganstown, but they are now physically divided by the M4 motorway.

Hints about the derivation of the name Radyr can be found in Lifris's writings "Life of St Cadog" written between 1081 and 1104 but relating to the earlier period around 530 AD, which mentions a croft or "tref" on the site called Aradur Hen. Lifris also tells the story of Tylyway, a religious hermit who was held to have lived on the banks of the Taff. Tylyway's cell is the most likely origin of the name Radyr; from the Welsh yr adur, meaning "the chantry", although Arudur Hen is also possible

St Philbert De Grand Lieu a town south-west of Nantes (Cardiff's twin city) on the southern shores of the Lac de Grand Lieu in Brittany, France which has over 300 hectares of vineyards producing Muscadet wine.  The first exchange visit took place in May 1986 and Twinning Charters were signed by Chairmen of both community councils. On the 10th anniversary of the twinning fellowship in May 1995 Radyr presented the people of St Philbert with a red telephone box.

The following year the French presented the Radyr community with a wine press, now sited in the gardens of the Old Church Rooms. The 20th anniversary was celebrated with a reception at the Old Church Rooms in 2006. The twinning committee is one of the more active in the area and cultural exchanges between the two communities take place annually. In 2008 forty five visitors from St Philbert will visit Radyr and a visit by villagers to St Philbert will also take place. The twinning committee also arrange Boule tournaments and social events throughout the summer.

The Parish of Radyr came into existence soon after the Norman Conquest of Wales around the beginning of the 12th century. From the Norman period we have St. John the Baptist's church and the Morganstown Motte. This earthwork suggests that for a short period during the Norman Conquest the boundary between Norman lands and those of the Welsh princes ran along the foot of Caerphilly Mountain.

The area had had a long history before the Conquest. Archaeological findings suggest that the Lesser Garth Cave (behind the Ty Nant Inn) was inhabited from the Stone Age onwards.  Place name evidence suggests that dark age princes might have had a residence at what is now the golf course. The sixteenth green covers what was once Maerdy Cottage and the "Maer", whose house this would have been, was an official at the court of Welsh princes.

Although the parish has been made up of twenty to thirty scattered farms since the Norman Conquest there have been five settlements, two of those settlements are Radyr & Morganstown:
Morganstown. This developed as a village for industrial workers in the early 19th century. Built on a farm called Ty'n y Berllan this was the first name for the village. It was then called Pentre and Pentrepoeth before becoming Treforgan and finally Morganstown. The only explanation for the name Morganstown is that Ty'n y Berllan farm was owned by a Morgan Williams.
Radyr. Modern Radyr grew up alongside the Taff Vale Railway marshalling yard     and the station which took many of the early "docksmen" to their daily work.