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# Cam Bryan Road
- URL: https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/cam-bryan-road/
- Published: 2025-04-21T17:05:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-21T17:32:45.000Z
- Description: I've always wondered whether Cambrian Road is pronounced 'cam-bree-an' like the mountains and the geological period or 'cam-bryan' like I've always called it?
- Author: Newport Cornucopia

I've always wondered whether Cambrian Road is pronounced 'cam-bree-an' like the mountains and the geological period or 'cam-bryan' like I've always called it? 

According to the 'Critic at the Council', a column in the South Wales Argus in 1894, who took it upon themselves to write a long poem, it was being called 'cam-bryan' shortly after, or since, it opened.

![](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/content/images/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-21-at-17.34.54-1.png)

— [*South Wales Argus, Wednesday 15th August, 1894*](https://www.newspapers.com/image/1143590178/?match=1&ref=newportcornucopia.co.uk) *(Subscription Required)*