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Ye Olde Murenger House is a 19th-century pub with a mock Tudor front on High Street, Newport, Wales. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It replaced a 17th-century pub, the Fleur de Lys, on the same site. It is named after the medieval job of a murenger, a person who collected tolls for the repair of the town walls, and is Grade II listed due to its historic interest ...
The Westgate Hotel, Commercial Street, Newport, Wales is a hotel building dating from the 19th century. On 4 November 1839 the hotel saw the major scenes of the Newport Rising, when 3,000 Chartists, some of them armed, led by John Frost marched on Newport to attempt to secure the release of five of their number who were being held under arrest at the hotel.
Crosskeys is a South Wales Valleys community, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, once part of the coal mining community of the South Wales coalfield and originally developed as part of Risca from the 1830s to serve the local mines - first the Black Vein and later the New Risca pits, both of which had large explosions during the later part of the 19th century.
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Newport: Newport & Monmouthshire Branch of the Historical Association and Chepstow Society. OCLC 249172228. — (1980). The Story of Monmouthshire, Volume 1, From the earliest times to the Civil War. Monmouth: Monnow Press. ISBN 978-0-95066-1810. OCLC 866777550. — (1979). The Story of Monmouthshire, Volume 2, From the Civil War to Present ...
1839: Chartist Newport Rising, Westgate Hotel, Newport led by radical former mayor John Frost. 1842: Newport Town Dock opens – floating dock able to accommodate the largest ships in the world. 1858: Town Dock extended to the north. 1867: Lower Dock Street drill hall completed. [29] 1871: W. H. Davies, renowned poet born at Portland Street ...