Wentlooge ( cy, Gwynllŵg), sometimes known as Wentloog, is a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...
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 population of 737.
Description
The name Wentlooge is a corruption of the earlier name
Gwynllŵg, said to have been named after
Gwynllyw
Gwynllyw Filwr or Gwynllyw Farfog (), known in English in a corrupted form as Woolos the Warrior or Woolos the Bearded ( la, Gundleus, Gundleius or Gwenleue; 450 – 500 AD) was a Welsh king and religious figure.
He was King of Gwynllwg in Sout ...
, its 5th - 6th century ruler.
The community is bounded by Percoed
reen to the northwest, the
Ebbw River
The Ebbw River (; cy, Afon Ebwy) is a river in South Wales which gives its name to the town of Ebbw Vale. The Ebbw River is joined by the Ebbw Fach River ( Welsh: Afon Ebwy Fach meaning 'little Ebbw river') at Aberbeeg. The Ebbw Fach is itself ...
to the northeast, the
Bristol Channel to the southeast and the
South Wales Main Line
The South Wales Main Line ( cy, Prif Linell De Cymru), originally known as the London, Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway or simply as the Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway, is a branch of the Great Western Main Line in Great Britain. ...
to the southwest. It contains the
hamlet
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s of
St Brides Wentloog and
Peterstone Wentloog
Peterstone or Peterstone Wentlooge ( cy, Llanbedr Gwynllŵg) is a small hamlet to the south west of the city of Newport, South Wales.
Location
Peterstone Wentlooge lies six miles to the west of Newport city centre and 7½ miles east of Cardiff ...
.
[Wentlooge Community Council]
Wentlooge Community Council homepage. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
The
West Usk Lighthouse is built on the shore of the
Bristol Channel in the far east of the community.
Government
The area is
governed by the
Newport City Council
Newport City Council () is the governing body for Newport, one of the Principal Areas of Wales. It consists of 51 councillors, who represent the city's 20 wards.
The council is currently, and has historically been, held by the Labour Party. ...
and the Wentlooge
community council
A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain.
In England they may be statutory parish councils by another name, under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, or they may be non-statutory bodies. In ...
.
Commercial development
Located between
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
and Newport, and in a non-protected but designated
green belt
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to allow for definition between the two cities, the area has been subjected to a series of planned light industrial developments. These include warehouses and other facilities, including a
rail freight
Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) hauled ...
container terminal operated by
Freightliner Group
Freightliner Group is a rail freight and logistics company headquartered in the United Kingdom. It is presently a wholly owned subsidiary of the American holding company Genesee & Wyoming.
It was originally created after the Transport Act 1968 ...
.
See also
*
Wentloog hundred
Wentloog (also known as Wentlloog and Wentllooge) was an ancient hundred of Monmouthshire. It was also known as Newport hundred.
It was situated in the western part of the county, bounded to the north by Brecknockshire; on the east by ...
References
External links
Wentlooge Community Council website
{{City of Newport
Communities in Newport, Wales