A garden village developed with the local mining union; now known as Cefn Fforest housing estate. Around 500 houses were built in the period before the First World War up until c.1915, one of the largest schemes attempted in the country up to that point. Although situated in a large industrial area with the Britannia Colliery of the Powell Duffryn Company nearby, the village was considered 'one of the cleanest and best laid out villages in the country'.

Meilyr Powel, RCAHMW, October 2020.

Sources include:

Monmouth Guardian and Bargoed and Caerphilly Observer, 3 September 1915, p.1