A community clean-up has been scheduled in Cwmfelinfach following a recent success in Lansbury Park.
Taking place on Monday 22nd November, volunteers will work alongside the Community Cleansing Team to clean-up the woodland embankment and verges of Commercial Road, Cwmfelinfach, which are hot spots of littering.
Plans come following the recent success in Lansbury Park, which saw members of the public volunteering and 30 bags of litter collected.
Cllr. Nigel George Cabinet Member for Waste, Public Protection & Street Scene says:
“We are a beautiful Borough with award winning green spaces but are often let down by littering. I am thrilled to see the community pulling together, along with the help of the Community Cleansing Team to tackle this issue together.”
Volunteers will be meeting near St Theodore’s Church, Cwmfelinfach at 10:30am on Monday 22nd November and all equipment will be provided.
Cwmfelinfach is a small village located in the Sirhowy valley of south-east Wales. It is part of the district of Caerphilly within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is located north of Wattsville, about 5 miles north of the nearest town Risca, and south of Blackwood. To the east the valley is bordered by the hills of Pen-y-Trwyn.
Cwmfelinfach can be translated from Welsh as “valley of the little mill“.
Cwmfelinfach was home to a coal mining community during the early to mid 20th century. The colliery, known as “Nine Mile Point”, opened in about 1905 and closed in 1964. Nine Mile Point Colliery was the site of the first ever sit-in of miners; during 1935 there was a “stay-down strike” involving 164 colliers. They were protesting over the use of “Scab” miners (men not members of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, unlike the rest of the “Points” workforce) and their ordeal only ended after the company promised that no non-Federation men would be employed at the colliery; the stay-down strike lasted for 177 hours. Miners from other collieries in the area, some taking similar action, supported their action.
