Penmaen, Caerphilly

Penmaen
Penmaen Chapel and gravestones
Penmaen is located in Caerphilly
Penmaen
Penmaen
Location within Caerphilly
Population5,251 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceST193990
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBLACKWOOD
Postcode districtNP12
Dialling code01495
PoliceGwent
FireSouth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Caerphilly

51°40′13″N 3°10′48″W / 51.670339°N 3.179917°W / 51.670339; -3.179917


Map of the community

Penmaen (historically sometimes spelled Penmain) is a hamlet and community in Caerphilly county borough, south Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is situated in the Sirhowy valley, 3 miles (4.8 km) East of Blackwood. It is contiguous with, if not completely encompassed by, the larger village of Oakdale, which forms most of the community urban area.

Penmain is an anglicisation of the Welsh language name Penmaen, meaning quite simply "headland" or "outcrop" (a common element in Welsh placenames: literally, rock/stone hill). Both spellings are found locally, with the English spelling predominant throughout the majority of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,[2][3][4][5] but the Welsh spelling is the one now more generally used.

  1. ^ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. ^ Dissenters (1839)
  3. ^ Ordnance Survey map (1901)
  4. ^ Ralph Thomas, Oakdale, The Model Village (2004) ISBN 0-9547320-0-6
  5. ^ [1] | Kelly's Directory (1901)