Hengoed, South Wales

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Hengoed.net is dedicated to the village of Hengoed Mid-Glamorgan. Hengoed (pronounced hen-goyd) is on the west side of the Rhymney Valley overlooking Ystrad Manach across to Maesycwmmer. Hengoed is now in the county borough of Caerphilly, in the traditional county of Glamorgan. The name Hengoed is said to literally means 'old wood' in Welsh

The resident population of Hengoed, (as measured in the 2001 Census) was 3,829 of which 48 per cent were male and 52 per cent were female:99.2% where from white ethnic origins.

 

 

 

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Above right is the sixteen arch Maesycwmmer to Hengoed Viaduct stretching across the Rhymney Valley that linked Pontypool to Swansea, via Aberdare and Neath. Built in 1857, this 260 metre structure was commissioned by the Newport, Abergavenney and Hereford Railway and designed by their engineer Charles Liddel. The railway line crossing the Viaduct closed in 1964 and today forms part of the Celtic Trail, the network of cycle routes across South Wales.