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Duffryn (Welsh: Dyffryn) is a large housing estate in the southwest of the city of Newport, south Wales comprising a large portion of the Tredegar Park electoral district (ward). Built on land belonging to Tredegar House, it was completed in 1978 and at the time won several awards for its design. The layout of the estate, as viewed from above ...
In 2009 Newport City Council transferred ownership of its social housing and most of the land it owned in the area to Newport City Homes, a housing association. The estate was built around the 17th-century parish church of St David in Bettws, which is the likely origin of the name 'Bettws', a place of prayer or private chapel.
Underwood is a settlement in the city of Newport, South East Wales. [2] It is an early 1960s council housing estate that consists of houses, [3] shops, a leisure centre, Baptist church and social club called "Iscoed Tavern" owned by the company red dragon pubs. There is a community centre which has a gym attached to it. The leisure centre is ...
Ringland is both a community (civil parish) and electoral ward of the city of Newport, South Wales.. The community is bounded by Ringland Way to the east, the southern boundary of Llanwern High School to the south, Balfe Rd, Aberthaw Rd, Ringland Circle, Ringwood Avenue, across Chepstow Rd, Mountbatten close and behind Chiltern Close and Glanwern Grove to the west and the M4 motorway to the north.
The houses were privately owned. The road originally led solely to Brynglas House on top of the hill. A council estate, Brynglas Drive, was later added. It consists mostly of post-war concrete-structured housing originally built and owned by Newport Corporation. Most of the housing is now privately owned but Newport City Council still owns some.
Christchurch is the location of one of Newport's large municipal cemeteries, north of Christchurch Road overlooking Caerleon. [6] Nearby once stood Christchurch Junior School. Christchurch has a War Memorial , to combatants of World War I and World War II , directly in front of the church, and a public house , The Greyhound Inn, opposite.
The house was bought by Newport Corporation for £3,250 for use as judges' lodgings in March 1939. [3] Until that time the Monmouthshire Assizes were held at the Shire Hall, Monmouth, some 25 miles from Newport via a slow winding road. [5] The quarter sessions were held at the Sessions House, Usk some 11 miles from Newport. [6]
Newport became one of the largest towns in Wales and the focus for the new industrial eastern valleys of South Wales. By 1830 Newport was Wales' leading coal port, and until the 1850s it was larger than Cardiff. [7] The Newport Rising in 1839 was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.