Blackwood

Blackwood is a metropolis, community and an electoral ward on the Sirhowy River inside the Valleys of Wales administered as a part of Caerphilly County Borough. It is positioned in the historical county of Monmouthshire. The city homes a growing quantity of mild commercial and excessive-tech firms. The role of Blackwood is mid valley between Risca the southern stop of the Sirhowy River where the river merges with the Ebbw River which leads into the Severn Estuary at Newport, and Tredegar at the head of the Sirhowy valley.

Until lately the principle street via the city become the best road used by heavy haulage and automobiles alike. The Chartist Bridge has been built linking some of well engineered single carriageway remedy roads, which means none of the adventure from Blackwood to Newport now has to go through residential streets, all is on excessive excellent new roads. The Pontypool adventure no longer goes down the domestically notorious 1 in 4 incline of the 'Rhiw' and now crosses the bridge and climbs up the alternative side of the valley on a steep but without difficulty handy road.

There are no heavy or mild educate links in Blackwood, even though Pengam railway station, at the Transport for Wales course from Cardiff Central to Rhymney, is but a couple of minutes by means of bus. In addition there is a rail link provider from Blackwood bus station to Ystrad Mynach railway station that's a brief journey away. The town became served by means of Blackwood railway station on the Sirhowy Railway until 1960.