Castleton () is a

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in the city of Newport,

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Location

Castleton is in the Marshfield ward on the

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dual carriageway located between the city of Newport to the east and

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to the west.

Amenities

Castleton has a

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. At a meeting at the chapel in 1816, it was agreed to establish the first Welsh Baptist Chapel in Newport, which was subsequently built on Charles Street. 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

dual carriageway is the main road through Castleton. The

A48(M) motorway The A48(M) motorway in Wales links Cardiff with Newport. It is a spur of the M4 motorway. At St Mellons, it runs continuously into the dual-carriageway A48, which also has (albeit narrow) hard shoulders. The A48(M) has no other junctions and ...

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

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station at nearby Marshfield acted as a rail connection, eastwards to Newport and onwards through the

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, terminating at London Paddington, and westwards to

and

Fishguard Harbour Goodwick (; ) is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, immediately west of its twin town of Fishguard. Fishguard and Goodwick form a community that wraps around Fishguard Bay. As well as the two towns, it consists of Dyffryn, Stop-and-Call, H ...

. Closed since 1959, long before the

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took effect, the nearest rail stations today are Newport and

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References

External links

Photos of Castleton and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk
Districts of Newport, Wales Villages in Newport, Wales {{Newport-geo-stub