St. Bride's or St. Bride's Wentloog ( cy, Llansanffraid Gwynllŵg) is a small hamlet to the south west of the

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Location

It lies in the

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Wentlooge Wentlooge ( cy, Gwynllŵg), sometimes known as Wentloog, is a community in the southwest of the city of Newport, South Wales, in the Marshfield ward. The community includes Peterstone Wentloodge and St. Brides Wentloodge and in 2011 had a popul ...

and electoral district (ward) of Marshfield. Like most of the settlements on the Wentloog Level it lies on land behind the sea wall, reclaimed from the

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, and criss-crossed by large and small drainage ditches, known locally as reens.

History

The village and

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of St. Bride's, Wentloog is dedicated to St. Bridget. St Brides church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated and

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styles, and consists of

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, south porch and an unusually fine perpendicular embattled western tower containing 6 bells, four of which are dated 1734 and bear inscriptions. A plaque inside the porch marks the high-tide level of the

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of 1607. It was the birthplace of Lyn Harding (1867–1952), the actor of stage, silent and talkie films, and radio.

References

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At Kelly's Directory for Monmouthshire,1901
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