The resident population at the 2001 census was 21,800, including the adjacent parish of St Martin's Without.

It was formed from Cardiff and adjacent parishes.

In an adjacent civil parish, Travassós, there is a second, smaller village named Freitas.

It shares a rector with the adjacent parish of South Malling.

It is administered jointly with the adjacent civil parishes of Henhull and Edleston.

It has no parish church, but only a chapel-of-ease to an adjacent parish.

The civil parish is administered jointly with the adjacent parish of Weston.

The defendant was then transferred to a parish prison in an adjacent parish.

Contemporary accounts refer to the battle site as Hornfield (Horn is an adjacent parish).

Most townships disappeared before 1866 either being included into adjacent civil parishes or gaining their own separate civil parish status.