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Newport probably had a Welsh-speaking majority until the 1830s, but with a large influx of migrants from England and Ireland over the following decades, the town and the rest of Monmouthshire came to be seen as "un-Welsh", a view compounded by ambiguity about the status of Monmouthshire. [7]
Newport was a borough constituency in Monmouthshire from 1918 to 1983. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , elected by the first past the post system.
The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company was a canal and railway company that operated a canal and a network of railways in the Western Valley and Eastern Valley of Newport, Monmouthshire. It started as the Monmouthshire Canal Navigation and opened canals from Newport to Pontypool and to Crumlin from 1796. Numerous tramroads connected nearby ...
Monmouthshire (/ ˈ m ɒ n m ə θ ʃ ər, ˈ m ʌ n-,-ʃ ɪər / MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -sheer; Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales.It borders Powys to the north; the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the north and east; the Severn Estuary to the south, and Torfaen, Newport and Blaenau Gwent to the west.
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 .
Newport Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gaderiol Casnewydd/Cadeirlan Casnewydd), also known as St Gwynllyw's or St Woolos' Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Monmouth within the Church in Wales, and the seat of the Bishop of Monmouth. [a] Its official title is Newport Cathedral Church of St Woolos, King and Confessor. [1]
Monmouthshire has a more "modest" [13] range of churches, although that at Bettws Newydd has "perhaps the most complete rood arrangement remaining in any church in England and Wales". [17] The county's Grade I listed abbey, at Tintern , became a focal point of the Wye Tour [ 18 ] in the late-eighteenth century. [ 19 ]
Monmouth borough, 1545 to 1832, which despite its name was a district of boroughs consisting of Monmouth, Newport and Usk and electing one MP to the Parliament of England (1545-1707), Great Britain (1707-1800) and the United Kingdom (1801-1832)