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Newport became one of the largest towns in Wales and the focus for the new industrial eastern valleys of South Wales. By 1830 Newport was Wales' leading coal port, and until the 1850s it was larger than Cardiff. [7] The Newport Rising in 1839 was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
The Inmos microprocessor factory, also known as the Inmos factory, previously known as Newport Wafer Fab, [2] now known as Nexperia Newport, [3] is a semiconductor fabrication plant for Inmos built in Newport, Wales, UK in 1980. It has gone through numerous changes in ownership.
The City of Newport is one of the unitary authority areas of Wales, in the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. This category is not for articles about Newport, Pembrokeshire , see Category:Newport, Pembrokeshire .
To the east of High Street is Newport Market, a Grade II-listed building. Kingsway/Usk Way is a boulevard on the west bank of the River Usk linking Newport Castle the Riverfront Theatre and the University of South Wales to the western ends of City Bridge and Newport Transporter Bridge. The city centre is currently being expanded to include ...
History of Newport: Central Hall, Newport Civic Centre: 1964: Hans Feibusch & Phyllis Bray: 12 murals: Paint: Each mural approx 8m high by 4 to 4.5m wide Grade II* Listed building [5]. [6] More images: Archform: Newport railway station: 1980 — Sculpture: Steel — More images: Stand and Stare, a tribute to W.H. Davies: Commercial Street ...
The district was abolished in 1996 by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, when it was reconstituted as the unitary authority county borough of Newport. The right to use the armorial bearings of the Newport Corporation which were lost when the corporation was abolished on 1 April 1974 were only officially transferred to the new authority on ...
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Newport is a city and county borough in the south of Wales.It covers an area of 190 km 2 (73 sq mi) [1] and in 2021 the population was approximately 159,700. [2]The Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales was established in 2002 and given statutory status in 2022.