Bute Street, Cardiff Bute Street, Cardiff Bute Street () is a street in Cardiff, Wales. It links Cardiff Bay (previously Tiger Bay) and Butetown with Cardiff city centre. It now has no road number. 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. The 2nd Marquess of Bute realised in the 1820s that the Glamorganshire Canal was not sufficient to cope with the demands of the
Leckwith, Cardiff Road, Sloper Road, Clive Street, Ferry Road, and Cardiff Bay. But as the Cardiff Leckwith has no official status the area has no formal boundaries and the name is sometimes used for locations outside the historic parish. The name "Leckwith" is an anglicisation of the Welsh "Lecwydd" (see Leckwith for a fuller explanation). The old stone triple-arched Leckwith Bridge crosses the river Ely to the west. It is Grade II* listed and dates from before 1536. Leckwith, Cardiff Leckwith () is an area in the west of Cardiff that includes parts of the communities of Canton and Grangetown. Leckwith includes