Argoed, Caerphilly

Argoed
Argoed Location within Caerphilly
Community	Argoed
Principal area	Caerphilly
Preserved county	Gwent
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWPORT
Postcode district	NP
Police	Gwent
Fire	South Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Newport West and Islwyn
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Islwyn
List of places UK Wales Caerphilly 51°41′37″N 3°11′32″W / 51.6935°N 3.1922°W / 51.6935; -3.1922

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.

Before 1960 the village was served by Argoed railway station. This was initially a stop on the Sirhowy Tramroad, which opened in 1822. The tramroad was converted to a conventional standard gauge railway in 1865, the Sirhowy Railway. The station closed in 1960 and the railway has been converted into a cycle path.

Zephaniah Williams, prosecuted for his part in the Chartist Newport Rising in 1839, was born in the village in 1795.