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Maes Manor is a country house near Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales.It dates mainly from the early 20th century and is notable for its gardens, designed by Thomas Mawson.Now a hotel, Maes Manor is a Grade II listed building and its gardens and grounds are listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
Map of places in Caerphilly County Borough compiled from this list See the list of places in Wales for places in other principal areas. This is a list of towns and villages in the Caerphilly County Borough, Wales.
Blackwood (Welsh: Coed Duon or Coed-duon ⓘ) is a town, community and an electoral ward on the Sirhowy River in the South Wales Valleys administered as part of Caerphilly County Borough. It is located within the historic county of Monmouthshire .
There are two pubs in Maesycwmmer: The Maesycwmmer Inn and The Angel (a third, The Butchers Arms, became an Indian restaurant called The Spice Tree). Maesycwmmer was a creation of the Industrial Revolution in the South Wales Coalfield. The houses built along the main road were purpose-built for the workers that built the Maesycwmmer to Hengoed ...
The Blackwood Miners Welfare Institute (Welsh: Sefydliad y Glowyr Coed Duon) is an entertainment venue located at the north end of Blackwood High Street in Blackwood, Caerphilly, Wales and run by Caerphilly County Borough Council. Opened in 1925 as a miners' welfare institute, it originally was a single floor snooker hall but was expanded ...
The Sorbonne - one of the universities of Paris (Paris IV), the centre of Paris's Latin Quarter. Statue of Liberty replicas - A smaller version of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 's Liberty Enlightening the World , the New York City harbor statue which France gave to the United States in 1886, located on the Île aux Cygnes on the Seine in the ...
Argoed (Welsh for 'by a wood' / 'by a grove') is a village, community and an electoral ward in the Sirhowy Valley between Blackwood and Tredegar in Caerphilly County Borough in south Wales. The population of the community and ward at the 2011 census was 2,769. [1] As a community, Argoed also contains the villages of Markham and Hollybush.
Caerphilly County Borough straddles the boundary of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire in South Wales. The 46 scheduled monuments include burial cairns from the Bronze Age, an Iron Age hillfort, and Roman camps. The medieval sites include two castles and a further four mottes as well as dwellings, crosses and churches.