Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PENGAM

PENGAM, a railway station on the E border of Glamorgan; on the Rhymney Valley railway, adjacent to the river Rhymney at the boundary with Monmouth, 17 miles N of Cardiff. The surrounding scenery is veryfine; and a handsome charity school house, for Gelligaer parish, is adjacent.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Glamorgan AncC
Place: Pengam

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