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Newport appears prominently on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire, [5] and is a former marcher borough. George Owen of Henllys, in 1603, described it as one of five Pembrokeshire boroughs overseen by a portreeve. [6] It retains some of the borough customs such as electing a mayor, who beats the bounds on horseback every August.
Pembrokeshire is the fifth-largest county in Wales, but has more scheduled monuments (526) than any except Powys. This gives it an extremely high density of monuments, with 33.4 per 100 km 2. (Only the tiny county boroughs of Newport and Merthyr Tydfil have a higher density).
It covers an area of about 4 ha, and is about 400 m x 150 m in extent. The lower slopes of Carningli are covered with traces of Bronze Age settlement (Pearson 2001) and so some features of the hillfort may be even older. Although not one of the largest fortified sites in Wales, it is certainly one of the most complex, incorporating a series of ...
Dinas Cross (Welsh: Dinas) is a village, a community and a former parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Located between Fishguard and Newport in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, it is a popular holiday destination on the A487 road. The two hamlets, Cwm-yr-Eglwys and Pwllgwaelod, are in the community.
Newport is a city and county borough in the south of Wales.It covers an area of 190 km 2 (73 sq mi) [1] and in 2021 the population was approximately 159,700. [2]The Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales was established in 2002 and given statutory status in 2022.
The Simon Pease House is one of the oldest properties in the Newport Restoration Society’s collection, but it is just one of over 70 properties owned by the society in general, several of which ...
Newport Cliffs; Offshore Islets of Pembroke Ynysoedd Glanau Penfro; Orielton Stable Block and Cellars [[[Park House Outbuildings]]] Pengelli Forest and Pant-teg Wood; Portheiddy Moor; Ramsey - Ynys Dewi; Rhosydd Yerbeston - Yerbeston Moors; Ritec Fen; Robeston Wathen Quarries; Shoalshook Railway Cutting and Pit; Skokholm; Skomer Island and ...
The principal area covers only part of the historic county, which also included Newport, Torfaen, most of Blaenau Gwent, and parts of Caerphilly and Cardiff. The preserved county of Gwent , which still exists for some ceremonial purposes, is similar in extent to historic Monmouthshire with the addition of the west bank of the Rhymney Valley .