Argoed is a village,

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and an electoral ward in the

Sirhowy Valley The Sirhowy Valley ( ) is an industrialised valley in the eastern part of the Valleys region of Wales. It is named from the Sirhowy River () which runs through it. Its upper reaches are occupied by the town of Tredegar within the unitary area of ...

between Blackwood and

Tredegar Tredegar (pronounced , ) is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales. Within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the In ...

Caerphilly County Borough Caerphilly County Borough ( cy, Bwrdeistref Sirol Caerffili) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. It is governed by Caerphilly County Borough Council. Its main and largest town is Caerphilly. Other towns in the county borough are B ...

in south

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. The population of the community and ward at the 2011 census was 2,769. As a community, Argoed also contains the villages of

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and Hollybush. Argoed is . Before 1960 the village was served by Argoed railway station. This was initially a stop on the

Sirhowy Tramroad The Sirhowy Tramroad was a plateway built to convey the products of ironworks at Tredegar to Newport, South Wales. It opened in 1805 between Tredegar and Nine Mile Point, a location west of Risca, from where the Monmouthshire Canal Company oper ...

, which opened in 1822. The tramroad was converted to a conventional standard gauge railway in 1865, the

Sirhowy Railway The Sirhowy Tramroad was a plateway built to convey the products of ironworks at Tredegar to Newport, South Wales. It opened in 1805 between Tredegar and Nine Mile Point, a location west of Risca, from where the Monmouthshire Canal Company opera ...

. The station closed in 1960 and the railway has been converted into a

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Zephaniah Williams Zephaniah Williams (1795 – 8 May 1874) was a Welsh coal miner and Chartist campaigner, who was one of the leaders of the Newport Rising of 1839. Found guilty of high treason, he was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted to l ...

, prosecuted for his part in the Chartist

Newport Rising The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rising in Wales, by Chartists whose demands included democracy and the right to vote with a secret ballot. On Monday 4 November 1839, approximately 4,000 Chartism, Chartist sympathisers, under ...

in 1839, was born in the village in 1795.

Suspected murder

On 6 November 2014 Cerys Yemm was killed in The Sirhowy Arms Hotel, Argoed, which was providing accommodation to released prisoners as an '

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'. The suspected murderer, Matthew Williams a recently released prisoner, was

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ed at the scene by officers of

Gwent Police Gwent Police ( cy, Heddlu Gwent) is a territorial police force in Wales, responsible for policing the local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen. The force was formed in 1967 by the amalgamation o ...

, and died shortly afterwards. The murder was originally reported to have involved an act of cannibalism. The

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announced an investigation into the Police's handling of the incident.

References

External links

Community Council website
Villages in Caerphilly County Borough Communities in Caerphilly County Borough {{Caerphilly-geo-stub

Suspected murder

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