Newport City Centre

Newport City Centre.

Newport city centre is the area of Newport by the west bank of the River Usk.  Most of the city centre is contained within two areas, the central area and the area around Lower Dock Street. Most of the city centre is located in the Stow Hill district.

The main shopping street is Commercial Street. It then links the heart of the city with Newport Docks.

The area between Commercial Street and the river used to contain a railway lines and river wharves so the street pattern in this area was never fixed. On the removal of the railway lines in the 1960s the large John Frost Square and Kingsway Shopping Centre were built, close to Newport bus station. This area is to be redeveloped to provide the Friars Walk shopping mall.

Newport Docks info

Newport Docks.

Newport docks were a fairly small fishing port and a market town until the industry age at the beginning of the 19^th century.  It was getting more business than almost any other port in the UK

Newport docks was opened in 1842 and was used until it was filled in1930s, it was the first floating dock in Newport. The Royal Assent introduced the dock act in 1835, which allowed the company to do construction on the docks.

The dock was officially opened in 1842 after opening the attracted tens of thousands of people to the dock.

The dock had railway connections to Brecon, Rhymney, Taff Vale railways. 

Newport County Ifo

Newport County.

Newport County is a Welsh footballing club based in Newport south Wales.

They are in the Conference National Division; it’s the fifth English football league system. The club was re formed in the 1989s but it was founded back in 1912.

They have had quite good history of the years by winning the Welsh cup in the 1980s. The club was soon relegated from the Football league in the 1988s and the football club went of business. It was soon re opened and they were entered into the lower league of football, but the club was successful in the season of 2010 to the season of 2011 they got promoted in to the Conference National League.

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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.

Newport castle info

Newport Castle.

The castle is based right next to the town centre, neighbouring the railway bridge. The east side of the castle still remains and mostly the western side of the castle has been lost over the years it has been there. The castle was fenced of from the public.

The castle was built was between 1327 and also 1386 by Hugh De Audley. The castle replaced an earlier castle on Stow hill, which got destroyed in conflict. The Newport castle was never needed for military action or any war like purposes.  Around the 15^th century the castle was occupied by Humphrey Stafford, who was the first duke of Buckingham, lord of Newport.  

Humphrey Stafford left the castle and it soon became abandoned, some effort was by royalist to re fortify. The east side of the castle is the only part t survive.

The castle has had an active life for about 200 years, and during this time it played no part in national politics and the main function was for day-to-day administration of a lord.

Transporter bridge info

Information about the Newport transporter bridge.Newport Transporter Bridge.

The Newport transporter bridge is a bridge, which crosses the river Usk in Newport. It was built in the year 1906, it was a design from a French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin. Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st viscount Tredegar who was on a British Army officer, opened it and he also was a politician, he opened the Transporter bridge on the 12th of September 1906.

The Newport transporter bridge was designed because of the riverbanks of the Usk being to low, this bridge allows ships to pass through with ease. The Newport transporter bridge is the largest transporter bridge made out of the 8, which were made; also it’s the oldest kind of bridge left in the UK.

Still to this day the transporter bridge is one of the most recognisable symbol of Newport. The bridge was also used for charity events such as abseiling; it was used for the Millennium celebrations of 2000 for the firework show.

In the early 1995 the transporter bridge was shutdown because of wear and tear, it cost about £3 million to refurbishment, after the refurbishment it was opened in same year 1905, but in 2007 the transporter bridge was closed to carry out more refurbishments which cost £1.225 million which took till 2010 to re open, again in 2011 the bridge was closed down this time because of service problems.