Blackwood was founded in the early 19th century by local colliery owner John Hodder Moggridge, who lived at nearby Woodfield Park Estate: the first houses in Blackwood were built by Moggridge in an attempt to build a model village.
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Deplorable working conditions at the time of the Industrial Revolution led to Blackwood Caerphilly becoming a centre of Chartist organisation in the 1830s.
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Blackwood Caerphilly moved to Pontypridd when his son James was a young boy.
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State backed rejuvenation schemes have gone some way to rejuvenate the wider Blackwood Caerphilly area, including the relief road and various light industrial areas.
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In sport, Blackwood Caerphilly has two rugby union and one rugby league sides, all of whom play at Glan-Yr-Afon Park.
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Blackwood Caerphilly is twinned with Protivin, a small town in the Czech Republic.
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Until the mid-1990s Blackwood Caerphilly comprehensive had separate uniforms for senior and junior pupils.
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Blackwood Caerphilly is in the middle of the Sirhowy Valley, the source of the river near Tredegar to the North and the confluence with the River Ebbw to the South.
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Blackwood Caerphilly has no heavy or light rail links; local bus services run between Blackwood Caerphilly Bus Station and Ystrad Mynach with a link to the Transport for Wales, Rhymney Line.
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Rotary Club of Blackwood Caerphilly was formed in 1946 and currently has twenty members.
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