Newport, Gloucestershire

The Stagecoach, Newport (geograph 3358314)

Newport is a village in Alkington parish,

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. Located along the A38 road roughly halfway between

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and

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. It is located about a mile south-east of Berkeley and just north of

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. It is on the Doverte Brook, a tributary of the

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. Its pub ('The Stagecoach'), formerly the White Hart, closed in 2021 and is now a Day Nursery. A closed down motel ('The Newport Towers') is being redeveloped as a housing estate, and a small non-conformist chapel. The chapel is closed on October 2006. It has a Georgian Interior with hat pegs and galleries and several broken harmoniums. Prior to the advent of the motor car, the journey between Bristol and Gloucestershire took a whole day. It was a perfect staging point for stagecoaches at that time. There were many inns, some catering for the post. The coaches would have a change of horses, the coachmen and passengers having a mid-journey rest stop. Villages in Gloucestershire Stroud District {{gloucestershire-geo-stub