Blackwood
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 24,000 residents
- Description: town and community in Caerphilly County Borough, Wales
- Also known as: “Blackwood, Caerphilly” and “Coed-duon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute and Blackwood Library.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pengam and Oakdale.
Pengam
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Oakdale
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oakdale is a large village in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, 9½ miles north of Caerphilly itself, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. Situated in the Sirhowy valley, it is 1.5 miles east of Blackwood, with which it forms a conurbation.
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. Gilfach is situated 1½ miles northwest of Blackwood.
Blackwood
- Categories: community and locality
- Location: Blackwood, Caerphilly County Borough, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.66632° or 51° 39′ 59″ northLongitude
-3.19743° or 3° 11′ 51″ westPopulation
24,000Elevation
745 feet (227 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BLWOpen location code
9C3RMR83+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 272840593OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Blackwood” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلاكوود”
- Asturian: “Blackwood”
- Basque: “Blackwood”
- Bengali: “ব্ল্যাকউড”
- Breton: “Coed-duon”
- Bulgarian: “Блекуд”
- Catalan: “Coed-duon”
- Cebuano: “Blackwood (kapital sa komunidad)”
- Cebuano: “Blackwood”
- Chinese: “布莱克伍德 (卡菲利)”
- Chinese: “布莱克伍德”
- Chinese: “布萊克伍德 (卡菲利)”
- Cornish: “Coed Duon”
- Czech: “Blackwood”
- Danish: “Blackwood”
- Dutch: “Blackwood (Caerphilly)”
- Dutch: “Blackwood”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلاكوود”
- French: “Blackwood”
- Galician: “Blackwood”
- German: “Blackwood”
- Gujarati: “બ્લેકવૂડ”
- Hebrew: “בלאקווד”
- Irish: “Coed Duon”
- Irish: “Coed-duon”
- Italian: “Blackwood”
- Japanese: “ブラックウッド”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ ವುಡ್”
- Korean: “블랙우드”
- Lithuanian: “Blekvudas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blackwood, Caerphilly”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blackwood”
- Norwegian: “Blackwood”
- Persian: “بلکوود، ولز”
- Persian: “بلکوود”
- Polish: “Blackwood”
- Portuguese: “Blackwood”
- Russian: “Блеквуд”
- Scots: “Coed-duon”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Coed Duon”
- Spanish: “Blackwood”
- Swedish: “Blackwood, Wales”
- Swedish: “Blackwood”
- Tamil: “ப்ளாக்வுட்”
- Telugu: “బ్లాక్ వుడ్”
- Ukrainian: “Блеквуд”
- Urdu: “بلاکوود”
- Welsh: “Blackwood”
- Welsh: “Coed Duon”
- Welsh: “Coed-duon”
- Welsh: “Coed-Duon”
- Welsh: “Y Coed Duon”
- Welsh: “Y Coed-Duon”
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Highlights include Old Methodist Chapel and The Little Theatre.
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