Hengoed
Hengoed is a village on the west side of the Rhymney Valley - between Ystrad Mynach to the south and Cefn Hengoed to the north. Across the valley it looks in the direction of Maesycwmmer. The town remains in the region borough of Caerphilly, in the conventional region of Glamorgan, Wales. The name literally suggests 'old timber' in the Welsh language. The selecting ward of Hengoed consists of the villages of Hengoed and also Cefn Hengoed and a part of Tir-y-Berth in the north west. The ward population was recorded at 5,548 in the 2011 census, a rise of 10% over the previous 10 years (2001 = 5,046), due partially to a number of new-build housing developments in the ward in between 2001 and also 2011.
