Aberbargoed

Aberbargoed
Aberbargoed
	Aberbargoed Location within Caerphilly
Population	9,184
OS grid reference	SO155005
Principal area	Caerphilly;
Preserved county	Gwent;
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CAERPHILLY
Postcode district	CF81
Dialling code	01443
Police	Gwent
Fire	South Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
Islwyn
	List of places UK Wales Caerphilly 51°41′48″N 3°13′26″W / 51.6968°N 3.2240°W

Aberbargoed is a

waste tip in Europe,^[2] although this has now been reclaimed and turned into a country park. The town is within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire

.

Toponymy

Aber refers to a "confluence" or "mouth" of a river and bargod is a "border".[3]

Mining

Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company started to sink the shaft. In 1901, the "Ras Las" nine-foot seam was discovered at a depth of 625 yards. The north and south shafts were completed. In November 1903, Sir Alfred Thomas, MP for East Glamorgan, started the engines to raise the first four trams of coal. By 1910, the pit was employing 1,943 miners and was the largest coal mine in the Rhymney Valley. On 10 December 1908, it broke the world record for production when a ten-hour shift produced 3,562 tons of coal

. It further broke its own record on 23 April 1909 when 4,020 tons were raised in a ten-hour shift. Bargoed Colliery closed on 4 June 1977. By this time, only 360 men were employed there.

Population

The population of Pont Aberbargoed was 351 in the census of 1851. Aberbargoed reached a peak in 1961 of 5,157, and had dropped to 3,882 according to the 1991 Census.^[4]

Modern day

The coal-mining waste tip that lay between

Plant a tree in '73

campaign in an attempt to make it more pleasurable on the eye. The tip has now been levelled and the area has been reclaimed with walkways. The colliery has gone and is now home to an ambulance station and various small industries. There are also developments with a new retail outlet in the area where the tip once stood.

The large tip at Bedwellty is still there, but has been grassed over and now looks much like the surrounding countryside. Aberbargoed now has an extensive area of grasslands that are protected due to the finding of the rare marsh fritillary butterfly, Euphydryas aurinia in the marshy area north of where Bedwellty School once stood. Recently the A469 Bargoed bypass was constructed through the park.

Notable people

Main page: Category:People from Aberbargoed

Sir Harold Josiah Finch, politician
Geoff Eales, jazz pianist and composer, was born in Aberbargoed
Luke Evans, actor and singer
Listed on the War Memorial in the middle of the village is the name of Glyndwr Michael. His body, given the fictional name of "Major William Martin", was used in "Operation Mincemeat", a deception operation by British intelligence agencies during World War II to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.

References

^ ^a ^b "The Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) Order 2006". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
^ "the largest ever man made colliery waste tip in Europe". www.caerphilly.gov.uk. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
^ "Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru". Archived from the original on 29 July 2014.
^ "Population figures from 1991 census". www.welshicons.org. 8 February 2011. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.

Bibliography

James, Paul (2002). The History of Bargoed, Gilfach and Aberbargoed in Photographs, Vol. 3. Old Bakehouse Publications.

ISBN 1-874538-64-6

.
Gelligaer Historical Society (1972). Gelligaer. Gelligaer Historical Society.

External links

[constituency-1] "The Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) Order 2006". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2023.

[Caerphilly.gov.uk-2] "the largest ever man made colliery waste tip in Europe". www.caerphilly.gov.uk. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2011.

[3] "Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru". Archived from the original on 29 July 2014.

[Welshicons.org-4] "Population figures from 1991 census". www.welshicons.org. 8 February 2011. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.

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