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Caerleon (/ k ər ˈ l iː ə n / kər-LEE-ən; Welsh: Caerllion) is a town and community in Newport, Wales.Situated on the River Usk, [4] [5] it lies 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Newport city centre, and 5.5 miles (9 km) southeast of Cwmbran.
Caerleon means the city of Legions, Caer, in the British language, signifying a city or camp, for there the Roman legions, sent into this island, were accustomed to winter, and from this circumstance it was styled the city of legions.
Isca, variously specified as Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, was the site of a Roman legionary fortress and settlement or vicus, the remains of which lie beneath parts of the present-day suburban town of Caerleon in the north of the city of Newport in South Wales. The site includes Caerleon Amphitheatre and is protected by Cadw.
The town has a number of well preserved Roman sites including Caerleon Amphitheatre, military bath houses, Field Barracks, and the fortress wall, which is 12 feet (3.7m) high. The site has been linked as a burial place of King Arthur , with Nennius' 830 AD work Historia Brittonum referring to ' The City Of The Legion ', a city some believe is ...
Caerleon is the historically important site of the Roman legionary fortress of Isca Augusta. St Cadoc's Church stands over the principia (headquarters), [ 1 ] where the legionary standards were kept and statues of the Roman emperors venerated.
However, with an entire Roman town at Caerleon, and Roman villas and forts, it is an important area for Welsh Roman archaeology. It is unlike much of South Wales in having far more medieval sites (28) than modern ones (4), with hardly any industrial monuments.
The Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway (PC&NR) [note 4] was promoted in the 1865 session of Parliament to build a new route to avoid the lower part of the Eastern Valley Line: it was an independent company. It was to build a standard gauge railway totalling, with branches, twelve miles in extent, from a triangular junction at Pontypool to ...
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