Cefn Golau is a disused cholera cemetery situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, and located between Rhymney and Tredegar in south-east Wales.

The victims were buried in specially designated burial grounds in remote locations because of the mistaken belief that it was caused by contagion instead of being waterborne.

The doctors searched for remedies without success, people left their homes and fled into the countryside while others stayed indoors.

The stones from the 1849 outbreak are much larger and more numerous, with most of the deaths dating from the months of August and September when the epidemic was at its peak.

[1] This burial ground on its remote windswept site has long been abandoned but a few gravestones still stand in the sheep-nibbled turf.