Hotels near Cardiff Arms Park
Cardiff Arms Park, also known as The Arms Park, is a rugby union stadium situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. The history of the rugby ground starts with the first stands appearing for spectators in the ground in 1881–1882, although the Arms Park had cricket played on the site since 1848. It is today the home to two rugby union teams, the Cardiff Blues and Cardiff Rugby Football Club.
The site has been host to many sports, apart from rugby union and cricket; they include athletics, association football, greyhound racing, tennis, British baseball and boxing. The site also has a bowling green to the north of Cardiff Rugby Ground, which is used by Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club, this is the bowls section of the Cardiff Athletic Club. The National Stadium also hosted many music concerts including The Rolling Stones, U2 and Michael Jackson.
Only the Cardiff Rub=gby Club now use the name Cardiff Arms Park. Cardiff Rugby Ground has two main stands, the North Stand, which was renamed the bmibaby.com Stand in August 2002, and the South Stand. Both the bmibaby.com Stand and the South Stand have terracing below seating. The other ends of the ground are the Westgate Street end , which has rows of seating below executive boxes, plus the club shop, and the River Taff end , which has 26 executive boxes. Cardiff Rugby Ground has two main entrances, the south entrance, and the Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates (north entrance), which was unveiled on 26 December 1949 in honour of the Welsh international rugby player Gwyn Nicholls. The Cardiff Athletic Clubhouse is situated in the corner of the ground between the South Stand and the Westgate Street end.
The South Stand of the Cardiff Rugby Ground formed a complete unit with the North Stand of the National Stadium. Now the same structure of the South Stand of the Cardiff Rugby Ground is also physically attached to the North Stand of the Millennium Stadium. This section is known colloquially as Glanmor's Gap, after Glanmor Griffiths, former chair and President of the WRU. This came about because the WRU were unable to secure enough funding to include the North Stand in the Millennium Stadium, and the National Lottery Commission would not provide any additional funds to be used for the construction of a new ground for Cardiff RFC. The Millennium Stadium was therefore built with the old reinforced concrete structure of the National Stadium and the new steel Millennium Stadium structure built around it.
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Location: Cardiff
Distance: 0.12 miles
Rating: 3*
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Distance: 0.12 miles
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Distance: 0.17 miles
Rating: 3*
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Distance: 0.19 miles
Rating: 2*
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Distance: 0.21 miles
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Distance: 0.22 miles
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Distance: 0.25 miles
Rating: 4*
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