Hengoed
Hengoed is a village on the west side of the Rhymney Valley - in between Ystrad Mynach to the south as well as Cefn Hengoed to the north. Throughout the valley it looks towards Maesycwmmer. The town remains in the region borough of Caerphilly, in the typical county of Glamorgan, Wales. The name actually suggests 'old timber' in the Welsh language. The selecting ward of Hengoed includes the villages of Hengoed as well as 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 as well as 2011.
