Argoed (other)
Argoed is a Welsh word, meaning 'by a wood'. It is the name of several places: Places * Argoed, Caerphilly :*Argoed railway station * Argoed, Flintshire :*Argoed High School *Argoed, Shropshire * Argoed, Powys *The Argoed, Penallt is a house near Monmouth, Wales * Afan Argoed Country Park is the local name for Afan Forest Park near Port Talbot Other uses *''Battle of Argoed Llwyfain'' is a poem by Taliesen about Owain mab Urien See also * Argoat Argoat () is the inland part of Brittany in France, in opposition to the coast, Armor. Its name is derived from Breton « ''ar'' » (next to) and « ''koad'' » (forest, wood). A literal translation would be "he landin front of or along the fores ...

Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ...
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Argoed, Caerphilly
Argoed 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. As a community, Argoed also contains the villages of Markham and Hollybush. Argoed is . 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 A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ... 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 vill ...
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Argoed Railway Station
Argoed railway station served the village of Argoed in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales. it succeeded the first Argoed station built by the Sirhowy Tramroad, which operated from 1822 to 1855. History The station was opened on 19 June 1865 by the Sirhowy Railway, upon completion of the work to convert the former Sirhowy Tramroad (a plateway of gauge) into a standard-gauge railway. The company got into financial difficulties, and was leased to the London and North Western Railway in 1875. Therefore, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. It was renamed ''Argoed Halt'' on 29 September 1941. Passing on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport ...
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Argoed, Flintshire
is a community in Flintshire, Wales, located between the towns of Mold and Buckley. The largest settlement in the community is Mynydd Isa, with New Brighton and Mynydd bychan to the north and Llong on the southern border of the community. The population was recorded to be 874, increasing at the 2011 census following reorganisation to 5837, although slightly decreasing to 5627 in 2021. Number of houses in Argoed (2001): 179 increasing to 2,405 in 2011. Governance The community council was formed in 1985 from part of Mold Rural Community Council. It was created as Mynydd Isa Community Council, but adopted its current name at the council's second meeting. It consists of twelve councillors, six elected from the Argoed ward and six from New Brighton. The Flintshire County Council electoral ward A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographica ...
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