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Oakdale is a large village in Caerphilly county borough, Wales, 9½ miles north of Caerphilly itself, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. Situated in the Sirhowy valley, it is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Blackwood, with which it forms a conurbation. At the 2001 census Oakdale had a population of 4,478.
Caerphilly County Borough is in southeast Wales and straddles the border between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.It is bordered by Cardiff to the southwest, Newport to the southeast, Torfaen to the east, Blaenau Gwent to the northeast, Powys to the north, Merthyr Tydfil to the northwest and Rhondda Cynon Taf to the west.
[citation needed] Ysgol Trelyn is located in the community of Pengam to the west of Blackwood and the newly opened Ysgol Cwm Derwen is located in the village of Oakdale to the east of the town. Both schools are 'feeder' schools to the Secondary School Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni located in Fleur de Lys, a village adjacent to Pengam to the west of ...
Oakdale Comprehensive School was a comprehensive school located in the village of Oakdale, Caerphilly Oakdale in Caerphilly county, Wales. The total enrollment was about 660 pupils aged 11 to 16. Sixth-form provision was at Coleg Gwent in Crosskeys and Ystrad Mynach College.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s ...
Oakdale Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Oakdale near Blackwood in Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union, and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. [1]
The name of the town is derived from that of the River Bargoed, which itself is based on the Welsh word bargod "border, boundary". [2] The change from Bargod to Bargoed is recorded from the sixteenth century onwards and was probably a hypercorrection under the influence of coed "trees, woods", perhaps reinforced by nearby place names such as Pen-y-coed, Argoed and Blackwood (Welsh: y Coed-duon ...
Caerphilly (/ k ə ˈ f ɪ l i /, / k ɑː r ˈ f ɪ l i /; [2] Welsh: Caerffili, Welsh pronunciation: [ˌkairˈfɪlɪ] ⓘ [3]) is a town and community in Wales.It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley.