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Blackwood Miners Institute

High Street, Blackwood, Caerphilly, NP12 1BB, Wales

BMI is located in the South East Valleys of Wales and our presence on Blackwood’s busy high street places us at the heart of the community, presenting a variety... more

Blackwood Miners Institute

High Street, Blackwood, Caerphilly, NP12 1BB, Wales

BMI is located in the South East Valleys of Wales and our presence on Blackwood’s busy high street places us at the heart of the community, presenting a variety... more

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Blackwood Golf Club

Blackwood Golf Club, Cwmgelli, Blackwood, NP12 1BR
Phone: 01495 223152 Secretary: 01495 222121

9 Parkland0.25m N of Blackwood

$ 88 average cost

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About Blackwood

Blackwood (Welsh: Y Coed Duon) is a town on the Sirhowy River in the South Wales Valleys within the Caerphilly County Borough. The town houses a growing number of light industrial and high-tech firms. Good transport links have made Blackwood a favoured home for a growing number of commuters who work in the cities of Newport and Cardiff. Located within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, Blackwood was founded in the early 19th century by local colliery owner John Hodder Moggridge, who lived at nearby Woodfield Park Estate: the first houses in Blackwood were built by Moggridge in an attempt to build a model village. Deplorable working conditions at the time of the Industrial Revolution, however, led to Blackwood becoming a centre of Chartist organisation in the 1830s. The South Wales Chartist leaders John Frost, Zephaniah Williams — a Blackwood man — and William Jones met regularly at the Coach & Horses public house in Blackwood. Planning their march on Newport in what became known as the Newport Rising in 1839, intended to coincide with a Britain-wide 'revolution' against the Government, the gentry and the Establishment in 1839.

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