Aberbargoed (Welsh: Aberbargod) is a town in the County Borough of Caerphilly, Wales.

Aberbargoed once contained the largest ever colliery waste tip in Europe,[2] although this has now been reclaimed and turned into a country park.

In November 1903, Sir Alfred Thomas, MP for East Glamorgan, started the engines to raise the first four trams of coal.

On 10 December 1908, it broke the world record for production when a ten-hour shift produced 3,562 tons of coal.

[4] The coal-mining waste tip that lay between Bargoed and Aberbargoed once towered to a height of 400 feet in the 1970s.

The local school had a Plant a tree in '73 campaign in an attempt to make it more pleasurable on the eye.