Alternative Name: Y Graig
Morphology: y+craig
Phonetic: uh-grah-eeg
Described in 1901 as "a hamlet 1 mile north of Blackwood", maps from 1886 show that on the road from Blackwood to Argoed, the area originally simply called Rock included a Rock Foundry, Rock Cottage, Rock House and the Calvinistic Methodist Rock Chapel in the area. Oddly the Rock and Foundry Public House was not in the immediate area, being further away in Woodfieldside, this is due to it being the place where workers from the Rock Foundry stopped on their way home. In 1901, aside from the collieries and foundry, the only commercial premises listed for the area were a grocer, a wheelwright, a blacksmith and The Rock Inn, which is still there today.