Cwmfelinfach

A map of 1885 shows the Melin (mill) and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Capel y Babell.

[citation needed] The grave of William Thomas (Islwyn), a 19th-century poet in the Welsh language, can be found here.

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.

The village is served by regular buses operated by Stagecoach Group to Tredegar and Blackwood in the north, and Newport city centre in the south.