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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hengoed like this:
HENGOED, a hamlet in Gelligaer parish, Glamorgan; on the river Rumney and on the Cardiff and Rumney railway, 5¾ miles N of Caerphilly. It has a station on the railway. Real property, £5, 823; of which £4, 559 are in mines. Pop., 578. Houses, 115.
Hengoed is now part of CAERPHILLY District. Click here for graphs and data of how CAERPHILLY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hengoed itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hengoed, in Caerphilly and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22992
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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