Malpas is an electoral district (ward) and coterminous

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(parish) of the city of Newport,

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. The area is governed by the

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Boundaries

The ward is bounded by the A4042 Heidenheim Drive to the east, the city boundary to the north, Malpas brook to the west, and Bettws Lane, Llanover Close, and the western and northern edges of Graig Wood, Yewberry Lane and Grove Park Drive to the south.

Name origin

The name is

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and comes from ''Mal'' (bad/poor) and ''Pas'' (passage/way). Earlier examples of the name include the definite article 'Le' and even an odd

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definite article 'Y' i.e. ''Le Malpas'', ''Y Malpas''.

The community

There are two large housing estates either side of the main Malpas Road (A4051). To the west is Hollybush and the

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s of Westfield and Malpas Court, although many of the houses are now in private ownership. To the east are the privately owned estates Woodlands, Malpas Park, Pilton Vale and Claremont. The roads in Malpas Court take their names from famous inventors and scientists, while those in Malpas Park are named after trees. The roads in Woodlands are named after

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generals, e.g. Allenbrooke Avenue, Horrocks Close, Montgomery Road,

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Way, Wavell Drive, etc. Claremont and Pilton Vale however are just single street names with large house numbers. The Malpas Institute Trust is a charitable fund, founded on the sale of the

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Memorial Institute. There are four

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s in the ward: Malpas Church in Wales Primary, Malpas Court, and Malpas Park. There are three

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churches in Malpas, St. Mary's

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, Trinity

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, and St. Anne's

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. The fourth Malpas Church, Christchurch, which is just off the Old Malpas Road is in the Shaftesbury Ward. There are no formal places of worship for other religions or faiths. Malpas is also home to St Joseph's Hospital, Newport, one of Wales's largest private hospitals, and an in-patient hospice service, St Anne's Hospice, both originally run by the

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of Annecy. Since 2013 the hospice has been run by St David's Foundation Hospice Care, whilst the hospital was taken over by a consortium of businessmen and doctors in July 2014. There is a detachment for Gwent & Powys

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near Oliphant Circle. A station of

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is located in Malpas.

Cycling and walking

A cycle and pedestrian walkway alongside the

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links Malpas to

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and

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Crindau Crindau () is a Victorian inner-city area just north of the city centre in Newport in south-east Wales. It lies within the Shaftesbury electoral district (ward) and community (parish). Crindau is roughly bounded by the Monmouthshire canal to th ...

References

External links

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