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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Pengam railway station and Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni.
Pengam railway station
Railway station
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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 and is the second busiest station on the Rhymney Line, after Caerphilly.
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
Photo: John Grayson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
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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
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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″ northLongitude
-3.21747° or 3° 13′ 3″ westPopulation
3,680Elevation
440 feet (134 metres)Open location code
9C3RMQ8M+C2OpenStreetMap ID
node 636118405OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640470Wikidata ID
Q7162698
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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
Highlights include Cefn Fforest Eco Park and Pengam Primary School.
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