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Dist:0.1km<br/>This country park in the Rhymney Valley has been developed on the site of the former Bargoed and Britannia collieries and their waste tips.
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is the 2.2 hectare plateau for a new £30million retail and leisure complex under construction at the rear of Hanbury Road. It is part of a joint venture between Caerphilly county borough council and the Welsh Assembly Government.
©Kev Griffin
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the 2.2 hectare plateau for a new £30million retail and leisure complex under construction at the rear of Hanbury Road. It is part of a joint venture between Caerphilly county borough council and the Welsh Assembly Government.
©Kev Griffin
Dist:0.2km<br/>Class 37, 37411, heads south, with 50049 on the rear, with a train for Cardiff on the day of special operations to mark the end of locomotive-haulage in the Rhymney Valley.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.3km<br/>Part of a £25m roadworks project to build a bypass around Bargoed. This 200m viaduct is a cross valley link between Bargoed and Aberbargoed. Previously the only link was a very steep road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1050494 . For a view from the other side of the valley see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/868051 .
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Part of the Bargoed bypass.
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This country park has been created on the site of three former collieries including what was one of the highest coal tips in Europe. Bargoed can be seen on the hillside opposite.
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.3km<br/>http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1050507
©Robin Drayton
Dist:0.3km<br/>A man walks his dog, as locomotive 37425 heads a northbound train near Gilfach Bargoed.
©Gareth James
Dist:0.3km<br/>Red-bricked Hanbury Road Baptist Chapel in Bargoed town centre.
©David Roberts
Dist:0.3km<br/>Not yet open to traffic. As part of the associated construction work, a tunnel has been built over the existing railway line at Bargoed Station.
©Robin Drayton
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©Kev Griffin
Dist:0.4km<br/>Situated on the A4049, Commercial Street and opposite to [[1637513]].
©Robin Drayton
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©John Lord
Dist:0.4km<br/>Sprinter unit 150285 rounds the curve to the south of Bargoed with a Bargoed to Cardiff train.
©Martin Loader

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