Just 5 miles south from the Welsh capital of Cardiff lies the charming seaside town of Penarth. It boasts some fine examples of Victorian and Edwardian architecture from the town’s heyday in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it was fondly referred to as ‘the garden by the sea’. David Ings guides the reader along its elegant seafront and through the charismatic streets; with the help of a handy location map, readers are invited along to discover for themselves the changing face of Penarth.