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Newport is the third-largest principal authority with city status in Wales, and sixth most populous overall. [4] Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, [5] and the Cardiff Capital Region. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans.
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.
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 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 ...
Authorised under the Newport (Monmouthshire) Docks Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. clxxxv), it was opened on 2 March 1858; it had cost £64,000 to construct. The original dock became known as the Outer Basin, and the new dock, referred to as the Inner Basin, covered 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 acres.
Newport Jazz Festival, in Newport, Rhode Island, also referred to sometimes as simply Newport, especially in the titles of some recordings of performers at the festival; Newport Folk Festival, in Newport, Rhode Island, sometimes referred to as simply Newport "Newport Living" (song), by the American power pop band Cute Is What We Aim For
1 July 1852 The Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company opened a temporary station at Marshes Turnpike Gate on Barrack Hill as the southern terminus of its Eastern Valley line from Pontypool. [3] [2] 4 August 1852 Newport Dock Street was opened by the Monmouthshire Railway on its Western Valley line. [1] [2]
Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it became necessary to establish a permanent meeting place for the newly formed Monmouthshire County Council. [1] The site selected by county leaders was open land to the west of Queen's Hill in Newport. [2]