Monday, 5 November 2012

Celtic manor info

The Celtic manor is a golf hotel and leisure resort based in Newport.
The manor  was built in 1860 by Thomas Powell who was the largest coal mine owner in south Wales, the Manor House was bought in 1980 by Terry Matthews, who invested £100m to redevelopment and too refurbishment the building. The house was soon renovated which helped  it retain all of its best features. In the early 1990s the hotel was rewarded for the best hotel in Wales.

In 199 there was plans were to develop two new golf courses and a convention centre on land between the Manor House. Terry Matthews who became friends with the golf course architect Robert Trent Jones. Work began on the Roman Road course in 1992, it named this after the main route connecting the former Roman fortress of Caerleon.

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