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Llanbedr, Newport
Llanbedr, also spelled Llanbeder, is a hamlet in Newport, Wales. Located in the eastern part of Langstone, it forms part of the community and the historical parish of Langstone. Geography The northern part of the old tithe area of Llanbedr is made up of coarse, buff sandstone (the elevated land of Kemys Graig which dominates the landscape is sandstone of the Brownstone formation) and the southern part, where most dwellings are, is soft and brown sandstone. There is a small raised area of river-deposited gravel on the alluvium at the very south of the hamlet area, within Llanbedr Farm, just south of the A48 Chepstow road which cuts across the land. Elevations range from 200 metres in the north to 25 metres in the south. History Llanbedr was bounded to the east and west by south-flowing streams from Kemeys Graig and to the south by the stream of which they were tributaries; to the north and east of it was the parish of Kemeys Inferior, the northern boundary being Coed-y-Caeru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Wales
Newport ( ) is a city and Principal areas of Wales, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. The population grew considerably between the 2011 and the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, rising from 145,700 to 159,587, the largest growth of any unitary authority in Wales. Newport is the third-largest principal authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and List of Welsh principal areas, sixth most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, and the Cardiff Capital Region. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the city. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Newport East () is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in the city of Newport, Wales, Newport, South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 by Jessica Morden of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The constituency retained its name but its boundaries were substantially altered, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, 2023 review of Westminster constituencies under the List of parliamentary constituencies in Wales#Final recommendations, June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election. History Newport East was created when the former Newport (Monmouthshire) (UK Parliament constituency), Newport borough constituency was split into two divisions in 1983. Until the changes coming into effect i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langstone, Newport
Langstone is a village and community (Wales), community of Newport, Wales, Newport, Wales. The community had a population of 4,730 in 2019. Location Langstone is situated on the eastern edge of the city and is one of Newport's more affluent areas, less than a mile from Junction 24 of the M4 motorway. Some of the ward is hilly and heavily forested. It is bounded to the north and east by the city boundary, to the west by the Caerleon ward, and to the south-west by the Coldra and Llanwern wards. Development The original village was a small linear settlement along the A48 road, A48 (Chepstow Road) and its offshoot, Tregarn Road. Since the 1990s, many have moved to the area because of its appeal as being rural, but also minutes away from the M4 motorway, M4 motorway. This population influx resulted in the construction of a large housing development at the bottom of Catsash Road, together with developments of housing estates, big and small, along Tregarn Road and Magor Road. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community (Wales)
A community () is a division of land that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales. Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England but, unlike English parishes, communities cover the whole of Wales. There are 878 communities in Wales, with more than 730 having community and town councils. History Until 1974 Wales was divided into civil parishes. These were abolished by section 20 (6) of the Local Government Act 1972, and replaced by communities by section 27 of the same Act. The Subdivisions of Wales#Principal areas, principal areas of Wales are divided entirely into communities. Unlike in England, where unparished areas exist, no part of Wales is outside a community, even in urban areas. Most, but not all, communities are administered by community councils, which are equivalent to English Parish councils in England, parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate. Welsh community councils may call themselves town councils unilaterally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kemeys Inferior
Kemeys Inferior () is a rural parish and hamlet of Newport, Wales, formerly part of the old county of Monmouthshire. It was the home of the Kemeys family from the Middle Ages until the 19th century. The parish contains a number of scheduled ancient monuments dating back to the Iron Age and listed buildings. Geography The bedrock of the parish is largely Devonian Old Red Sandstone in the Brownstone group of which the dominant feature is the ridge of Kemeys Graig, consisting of mostly undivided sandstone with marl further down the slope on the Usk side; the flood plain of the Usk is marine or estuarine alluvium. The highest point of the parish is ''Caer Licyn'' at 241 metres (location: 51.33686, −2.37970). The largest percentage of the land is agricultural, of which the most fertile by the Usk. About 40% has tree cover, including '' Coed-y-Caerau'' (also the name of a hamlet) on Kemeys Graig, which joins Wentwood further east and is part of the largest ancient forest in Wales, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llandevaud
Llandevaud (sometimes ; also recorded historically in English as ''Llandevad'' and ''Llandevan'') is a hamlet in Newport, Wales. It is situated between the A48 Newport-Chepstow Road and the M4 motorway, east of the village of Langstone. It is part of the community of Langstone. Geography The western part of the hamlet lies on Brownstones formation sandstone formed between 419.2 and 393.3 million years ago in the Devonian period. The bedrock of the eastern part is the Tintern sandstone formation, formed in the Devonian and Carboniferous periods between 372.2 and 346.7 million years ago. Elevations vary from in the northwest by the stream south of the A48 to nearly in the east. History The derivation of the hamlet name is obscure. Llandevaud Mill is the remains of a post-mediaeval corn mill site at the northwest of the hamlet tithe area by Llanbedr. Two uninvestigated sites are the possible remains of a Roman villa west-southwest of Llandevaud Common and an ancient square cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Age
The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progressing to protohistory (before written history). In this usage, it is preceded by the Stone Age (subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic) and Bronze Age. These concepts originated for describing Iron Age Europe and the ancient Near East. In the archaeology of the Americas, a five-period system is conventionally used instead; indigenous cultures there did not develop an iron economy in the pre-Columbian era, though some did work copper and bronze. Indigenous metalworking arrived in Australia with European contact. Although meteoric iron has been used for millennia in many regions, the beginning of the Iron Age is defined locally around the world by archaeological convention when the production of Smelting, smelted iron (espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Britain
Roman Britain was the territory that became the Roman province of ''Britannia'' after the Roman conquest of Britain, consisting of a large part of the island of Great Britain. The occupation lasted from AD 43 to AD 410. Julius Caesar invaded Britain in 55 and 54 BC as part of his Gallic Wars. According to Caesar, the Britons had been overrun or culturally assimilated by the Belgae during the British Iron Age and had been aiding Caesar's enemies. The Belgae were the only Celtic tribe to cross the sea into Britain, for to all other Celtic tribes this land was unknown. He received tribute, installed the friendly king Mandubracius over the Trinovantes, and returned to Gaul. Planned invasions under Augustus were called off in 34, 27, and 25 BC. In 40 AD, Caligula assembled 200,000 men at the Channel on the continent, only to have them gather seashells () according to Suetonius, perhaps as a symbolic gesture to proclaim Caligula's victory over th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auxiliary Units
The Auxiliary Units, Home Guard Shock Squads or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret quasi military units created by the British government during the Second World War with the aim of using irregular warfare in response to a possible invasion of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany. With the advantage of having witnessed the rapid fall of several Continental European nations, the United Kingdom was the only country during the war that was able to create a guerrilla force in anticipation of an invasion. Auxiliary Units relied on pre-prepared bunkers known as " operational bases", into which they were to disappear in the event of invasion. They would not maintain contact with local Home Guard commanders, who were to be wholly unaware of their existence. Auxiliaries would not participate in the conventional phase of their town's defence, but would be activated once the local Home Guard defence had been ended to inflict maximum mayhem and disruption over a furt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishton
Bishton or Bishopston ( or simply ''Trefesgob'') is a small rural community (Wales), community in the east of the city of Newport, Wales, Newport, South Wales. It lies in the Llanwern electoral district (ward) and contains the eastern end of Llanwern steelworks, the Underwood, Newport, Underwood estate as well as Bishton itself. The population in the 2001 census was 2,181; dropping to 2,137 in 2011. History The earliest record is from the ''Liber Landavensis'' (12th century) which states that Guidnerth was pardoned three years after killing his brother Merchion and was granted the land and woods from the coastline of Llangadwaladr to St. Cadwaladr's church in a charter witnessed by Bishop Berthguinus sometime around the year 700. The name is said to derive from "Bishop's Town", as the village has been alleged to be the sometime home of the Bishop of Llandaff, Bishops of Llandaff. Owain Glyndŵr destroyed the palaces at Bishton and Llandaff, from which time the episcopal palace wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of The United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London. Parliament possesses legislative supremacy and thereby holds ultimate power over all other political bodies in the United Kingdom and the Overseas Territories. While Parliament is bicameral, it has three parts: the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons. The three parts acting together to legislate may be described as the King-in-Parliament. The Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation. The House of Commons is the elected lower chamber of Parliament, with elections to 650 single-member constituencies held at least every five years under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional conventi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Morden
Jessica Elizabeth Morden (born 29 May 1968) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 until her election to Parliament. Early life and career Born in Surrey, England, Morden grew up in Cwmbran and educated at Croesyceiliog School before reading Medieval and Modern History ( BA) at the University of Birmingham. In 1991, Morden worked for Huw Edwards, MP for Monmouth. Between 1992 and 1995 she worked for Llew Smith, MP for Blaenau Gwent. Before becoming an MP, Morden was General Secretary of Welsh Labour from 1999 to 2005. She organised some of Labour's election campaigns for the 1997 election. Parliamentary career Morden was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Newport East in the 2005 general election by the all-women shortlists method. She was elected as the first female MP in South East Wales with a 6,800 majority. Morden served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
