Caerphilly District Miners Hospital

Caerphilly District Miners’ Hospital was built in 1923 to provide health care to the 24,000 miners and their families who worked in the 29 pits of the Rhymney Valley. It was acquired by the miners from Mr Fred Piggott, a coal mining engineer, and was at that stage a red brick mansion known as The Beeches. The wards of the hospital are named after the local pits whose miners contributed to the funds that financed the building of the hospital - Nantgarw, Penallta, Bedwas, Llanbradach, Nelson, and Senghenydd. The mines have all now closed, so the hospital now runs as part of the NHS serving the people of Caerphilly Borough.

Another mansion nearby along St Martin's Road, Redbrook House, provided accommodation and teaching to the hospital's nurses, but this was demolished controversially in the early 1970s to make way for a housing development.

Proposals have been made to replace the hospital with a new facility at Ystrad Mynach from 2009.