Castleton ( cy, Cas-bach) is a
hamlet
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in the city of
Newport,
South Wales
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.
Location
Castleton is in the
Marshfield ward on the
A48 dual carriageway
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located between the city of Newport to the east and
Cardiff
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to the west.
Amenities
Castleton has a
Baptist
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chapel
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. It was at the Castleton Baptist Association meeting in 1816 that it was resolved to build the first
Welsh Baptist
The Baptist Union of Wales (Undeb Bedyddwyr Cymru) is a fellowship of Baptist churches in Wales.
History
The General Baptist minister Hugh Evans was one of the first Baptists to preach in Wales around 1646, in the parishes of Llan-hir, Cefnllys, ...
Chapel in Newport, and the land then acquired in Charles Street, with the help of a bequest from John Williams, a Newport tailor. This building is now used as a business and Church meetings are held at Gateway Baptist in Marshfield nearby. There is a filling station with a cafe and deli next door. Across the road, is the ''Coach and Horses'', a pub/restaurant and hotel.
Transport
The
A48 dual carriageway
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is the main road through Castleton. The
A48(M) motorway
The A48(M) motorway in Wales links Cardiff with Newport. It is a long M4 spur. At St Mellons, it runs continuously into the dual-carriageway A48, which also features (albeit narrow) hard shoulders. The A48(M) has no junctions and opened ...
passes close to the north of the village. There are no motorway junctions on this short link between (
M4) Junction 29 and Junction 29A at St Mellons.
The
Great Western Railway
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station at nearby
Marshfield acted as a rail connection, eastwards to Newport and onwards through the
Severn Tunnel
The Severn Tunnel ( cy, Twnnel Hafren) is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn. It was constructed by the Great Western ...
, terminating at
London Paddington
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, and westwards to
Cardiff
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and
Fishguard Harbour
Goodwick (; cy, Wdig) is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, immediately west of its twin town of Fishguard.
Fishguard and Goodwick form a Community (Wales), community that wraps around Fishguard Bay. As well as the two towns, it consists o ...
. Closed since 1959,
long before the
Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised British Rail, railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Develop ...
took effect, the nearest rail stations today are
Newport and
Rogerstone
Rogerstone ( cy, Tŷ du, meaning "Black house") is a large village and community (parish) in Newport, Wales. The area is governed by Newport City Council. The village falls within the ancient parish of Bassaleg and historic county of Monmout ...
.
References
External links
Photos of Castleton and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
Districts of Newport, Wales
Villages in Newport, Wales
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