Pengam
Pengam is a former coal village and community in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly county borough, in Wales. It is also a community, containing itself and the nearby village of Fleur de Lys, and at the 2001 census it has a population of 3,842, rising slightly to 3,848 at the 2011 Census.Places of Interest
Highlights include Pengam railway station and Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni.
Pengam railway station
Railway station
Pengam railway station is situated in Pengam on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network in South Wales. It is also the nearest station to the town of Blackwood.
Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni
School
Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni is a Welsh-medium school situated in the village of Fleur-de-Lys in the Rhymney Valley. Cwm Rhymni was founded in 1981 with just over 150 pupils and has since grown to 1,684 pupils, with 1,164 at the Gellihaf campus and 520 at Y Gwyndy.
Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute
Arts center
The Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute is an entertainment venue located at the north end of Blackwood High Street in Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales and run by Caerphilly County Borough Council.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackwood and Cefn Hengoed.
Blackwood
Town
Blackwood is a town, community and an electoral ward on the Sirhowy River in the South Wales Valleys administered as part of Caerphilly County Borough.
Cefn Hengoed
Village
Cefn Hengoed is a small village in the Rhymney Valley, in the centre of Caerphilly borough, within the historic boundaries of Glamorganshire. Bordering the larger village of Hengoed, Cefn Hengoed contains the local Derwendeg primary school, which has recently celebrated its 90th birthday.
Gilfach
Village
Gilfach is the small district that lies between Bargoed and Pengam, situated in the Caerphilly county borough, seven miles north of Caerphilly, within the historic boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales.
Pengam
- Type: Village with 3,680 residents
- Description: village and community in Caerphilly, Wales
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Pengam, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.66611° or 51° 39′ 58″ north
Longitude
-3.21747° or 3° 13′ 3″ west
Population
3,680
Elevation
440 feet (134 metres)
Open location code
9C3RMQ8M+C2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Pengam” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pengam”
- Bengali: “পেনঙ্গান”
- Breton: “Pengam”
- Bulgarian: “Пенгам”
- Catalan: “Pengam”
- Cebuano: “Pengam”
- Chinese: “彭加姆”
- Chinese: “潘甘姆”
- Cornish: “Pengam”
- Dutch: “Pengam”
- French: “Pengam”
- German: “Pengam”
- Gujarati: “પેંગમ”
- Irish: “Pengam”
- Japanese: “ペンギャム”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಂಗ್ಂ”
- Korean: “펜감”
- Lithuanian: “Pengamas”
- Persian: “پنگم”
- Portuguese: “Pengam”
- Russian: “Пенгам”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pengam”
- Spanish: “Pengam”
- Swedish: “Pengam”
- Tamil: “பெண்கம்”
- Telugu: “పెంగం”
- Urdu: “پینجام”
- Welsh: “Pengam, Caerffili”
- Welsh: “Pengam”
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Notable Places Nearby
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