Weed Delivery in Cardiff - A Guide to the Whole CF Postcode City
Cardiff is a capital city made of districts that behave like small towns. The CF postcode area runs from the civic centre and the shopping streets out through Victorian terraces, dockside towers, cathedral suburbs and wide Edwardian avenues, and two addresses three miles apart can have nothing in common except the postcode letters. This guide works through the city district by district, because that is how delivery behaves here.
How an order reaches a CF address
Choose what you want, pay by card at checkout, and the order is dispatched inside 24 hours, Monday to Saturday, weekends and bank holidays included. Weight is checked before dispatch, so the weight recorded on our side is the weight that travels. A tracking email follows the order out, and InPost adds its own notification once the parcel is in the compartment, with the code that opens it.
Parcels to CF addresses are normally ready for collection 2–3 working days after dispatch, and the parcel is then held in the compartment for 72 hours. Collection needs the code InPost sends, and you must be over 18 to place an order. Beyond that there is nothing to arrange: no appointment, no knock at a door, no neighbour taking anything in.
Delivery is a flat £5 per order anywhere in the CF districts, and there is no minimum order, so a single item is posted on exactly the same terms as a large one. One storefront covers the whole city, which means the terms on any area page apply on your own street too.
The eleven districts, and what each is like to deliver to
Adamsdown (CF24)
Newport Road marks the northern edge and the mainline railway closes the ward to the south, which is why this small wedge between the city centre and Splott feels more enclosed than its position suggests. Housing is almost entirely Victorian terrace in tight rows, with front doors on the pavement, back gates onto the lanes behind every block, and flats above the shops on Clifton Street reached through a single doorway.
Atlantic Wharf (CF10)
Bute East Dock holds no ships now, and Atlantic Wharf grew around the water: apartment blocks along its western side, converted warehouses, the Red Dragon Centre and the council's County Hall. Most addresses are flats inside named buildings reached by an intercom, a fob or a concierge desk, and several blocks can only be approached from the bay-side service roads.
Butetown (CF10)
Tre-biwt, the old Tiger Bay, is still the most mixed piece of Cardiff: nineteenth-century terraces off Bute Street and around Loudoun Square sitting a few minutes from glass-fronted towers on the water. Doors on the older streets open onto the pavement and many houses are split into flats, while the newer bay blocks work the opposite way, with entry phones, fobs and shared post rooms. The docks shape every route, and the line into Cardiff Bay station cuts across the ward's northern edge.
Cathays Park (CF10)
Parc Cathays is the one Cardiff district that is not really a neighbourhood. The civic centre is a grid of Edwardian stone — City Hall, the National Museum, the Temple of Peace and the Welsh Government's offices — arranged around Alexandra Gardens, with university buildings along Park Place. Almost nobody lives in the middle of it; the residents are on the edges, in the flats and student houses of Park Place.
Central (CF10)
Nobody in Central is ever far from a crowd. The ward takes in Queen Street, St Mary Street, the Hayes, Cardiff Market and the blocks around Cardiff Central station, with the Principality Stadium and Cardiff Arms Park pressed against its western edge. Housing is nearly all flats — apartments above shopfronts, converted offices and short lets — so a doorstep here is often a communal lobby with a keypad.
Llandaff (CF5)
A cathedral district that the city took in during 1922 and never quite made uniform. The core around the cathedral and the Green keeps its own shape, with stone and render villas behind high hedges and deep front gardens; further out towards Fairwater and Llandaff North the housing turns into 1930s semis on generous plots. Llandaff station sits on the City Line, and the A4119 climbs away towards Radyr and Llantrisant.
Pen-y-lan (CF23)
Penylan was built for people who wanted space: Edwardian houses and interwar semis on wide, tree-lined roads on both sides of the A48 dual carriageway, with the southern half of Roath Park and its lake acting as the district's front garden. The lake, the Nant Fawr that feeds it and the avenues around Waterloo Gardens are the landmarks people navigate by, and the Eastern Avenue junctions are the only sensible places to cross the A48.
Penarth Moors (CF11)
Most of what carries this name is not housing. The strip lies low and flat between Grangetown and the bay, on ground that was marsh where the Taff and the Ely meet, and it has been given over to industrial units, depots and the retail sheds along Penarth Road. Residential addresses sit at the fringes: newer apartment blocks towards the bay and the Grangetown terraces to the north.
Plasnewyd (CF24)
The densest ward in Cardiff, and the one where the street signs and the maps disagree about the spelling. Terraces run in long unbroken lines off Albany Road, City Road, Wellfield Road and Mackintosh Place, most now holding three or four flats behind one pavement door with a bank of buzzers, and the rear lane behind the block is the practical way in for anyone who cannot manage the front step.
Riverside (CF11)
Glan yr Afon: the bank of the river. The Taff runs down the eastern side, Sophia Gardens and the Taff Trail sit on the far bank, and the housing is a patchwork of narrow Victorian terraces with steps up to the door, a few streets with basements, and the grander terraces of Pontcanna to the north. Crossings are limited, so the route by road is often much longer than the route on foot.
Roath (CF24, CF23)
Two districts under one name. South of the park the streets are Victorian and dense — the grid off City Road, Albany Road and Broadway, full of flats and students — while north and east of the lake the district turns green and expensive, with wide avenues and front gardens running up towards Cyncoed. The postcode usually says which half you are in: CF24 on the older streets, CF23 on the Penylan side of the park.
Three Cardiff housing shapes, three different problems
The shared front door
The commonest pattern in the city and the one that breaks doorstep delivery. A terrace built for one household now holds three or four, so a single door, one entry panel and one staircase stand between a courier and the person who ordered. Answering depends on somebody being in and willing to come down, which cannot be assumed in wards where most residents rent, study or work shifts. Plasnewyd, Adamsdown, Riverside, the older half of Roath and the Bute Street side of Butetown all run on this shape.
The building with no street-level door
The bay developments go further, because there is often no individual front door at all. A concierge desk, an entry panel or a fob controls access, a lift covers the vertical distance, and the flat number is no use to anyone standing outside. Atlantic Wharf, the newer blocks of Butetown, the fringes of Penarth Moors and the apartment conversions around Central all work this way.
The house set back, with nobody in it
The opposite shape, and no easier. In Llandaff the door sits behind a hedge and a drive; in Pen-y-lan and north Roath it sits behind a porch and a garden; out towards the west of the city it sits behind a driveway with nobody home between nine and six.
The ring around the city
CF10 covers the city centre, Cathays Park, Central, Butetown and Atlantic Wharf. CF11 runs south-west through Riverside, Grangetown and Penarth Moors towards the streets behind Leckwich. CF24 takes in Plasnewyd, Adamsdown and the student side of Roath, while CF23 covers Pen-y-lan and the park side of the same district. To the west, CF5 reaches Llandaff, Ely and Caerau.
All of it is covered by the same storefront, the same flat £5 delivery and the same InPost locker collection. Newport to the east, the Rhondda and the rest of the valleys, Penarth and the Vale to the south, and Bristol and Weston-super-Mare across the water are separate territories with their own arrangements.
Questions Cardiff customers ask
Which parts of Cardiff do you cover? The city and its CF districts, with a separate area page for each of the eleven districts named above. If you are on the edge of a neighbouring town, send the postcode and we will say which coverage fits.
How long does an order take to reach a CF address? Dispatch happens inside 24 hours, Monday to Saturday. The parcel then moves through the InPost locker network and is normally ready 2–3 working days after dispatch, with 72 hours in the compartment once it lands. No timed drops are run, so there is no hour to wait in for.
Where is the parcel actually delivered? To an InPost locker you choose, rather than to a front door. That is the mechanism that works across Cardiff's housing, where flats share one entrance, terraces open onto the pavement and bay towers have no individual street door.
How much does delivery cost? A flat £5 per order, whether the locker you pick is in the city centre or out towards Llandaff, with no minimum order and no surcharge for any CF postcode.
What if I am not in when it arrives? Nothing arrives at your door, so it makes no difference. The parcel waits under your code for 72 hours, and you collect when your own week allows.
Do you deliver to Newport, the valleys, Penarth or Bristol? Not on this storefront. Those are separate territories with their own arrangements, so send your postcode before ordering and you will be told honestly whether we can reach you.
For everything that happens before the parcel moves — the ordering steps, the age check and payment from the wallet — start with the Cardiff ordering guide, and the Cardiff delivery and locker collection guide picks it up from there.
More Cardiff guides
Every page we publish for this city, grouped so you can go straight to your postcode or your part of town.
By postcode — CF3 · CF39 · CF40 · CF5
By neighbourhood — Adamsdown · Atlantic Wharf · Barry · Butetown · Caerphilly · Cathays Park · Central · Llandaff · Pen Y Lan · Penarth Moors · Penarth · Plasnewyd · Pontypridd · Riverside · Roath
How delivery works — Delivery And Locker Collection · How To Order · Weed Delivery Faq
If your postcode is not listed, it is still inside the delivery area — start with the coverage section above.
