Alternative Name: Y Drenewydd
Morphology: y+tre+newydd
Phonetic: uh-drr-air-new-ith
Famous for the museum housed in some of the original terraced houses, the English name comes from the Bute Iron Works and the Marquess of Bute, who owned the land in the area. A map of Glamorganshire for "England and Wales Delineated" in 1843 shows Bute Town but later, in a map that went with a report of the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales in 1885, the place name was shown simply as Bute Works. As the area developed it took on the name Newtown in 1875 and though this carried on in the Welsh name of Y Drenewydd, the English soon reverted back to Bute Town as it is today. Both the English and Welsh names appear elsewhere in Wales, for example Butetown in Cardiff and Newtown / Y Drenewydd in Powys and near Mountain Ash.