Langstone, Newport

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Langstone
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Langstone parish church
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Langstone
Location within Newport
Population4,425 (2011 census) [1]
OS grid reference ST386909
Principal area
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NEWPORT
Postcode district NP18 2
Postcode district NP26 3
Dialling code 01633
Llanwern exchange
Penhow exchange
Police Gwent
Fire South Wales
Ambulance Welsh
UK Parliament
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Wales
Newport
51°36′24″N2°54′03″W / 51.60674°N 2.90096°W / 51.60674; -2.90096

Langstone is a community and village of the city of Newport, Wales. The area is governed by the Newport City Council. The community had a population of 3,279 in 2011. [2]

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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 (Coldra) 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 Ringland and Llanwern wards.

Development

The original village was a small linear settlement along the 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. This population influx in the 90s resulted in the construction of a large housing development at the bottom of Cat's Ash Road, together with developments of housing estates, big and small, along Tregarn Road and Magor Road.

The community contains the hamlets of Llanbedr, Llandevaud and Llanmartin as well as Langstone itself.

History

The actual village of Langstone (excluding the adjoining villages of Penhow-Parc Seymour, Llanvaches, Llandevaud, Llanbedr and Llanmartin) in 1801 had 126 inhabitants. By 1901 the population had risen to 206. The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded the population as 3,905 people.

In 1891 Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire noted that Llanbedr was a hamlet, one and a half miles north-east of the parish, on the road from Newport to Chepstow. It then had some remains of a church, which were then in agricultural use. [3]

In July 2018, after a long period of warm dry weather, crop marks of a prehistoric or Roman farm near the village were revealed. The site was recorded by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) before it disappeared again with the next rains. [4]

The parish church dates from the 13th century. It was extended in both the 16th and 17th centuries, and restored in 1907. It is a Grade II listed building. [5] It is part of the Netherwent Ministry Area. It has no known patron saint. [6]

Scheduled Ancient Monuments

The following Ancient Monuments are in the Langstone community:

Both Pencoed Castle and Penhow Castle fall within the ward boundaries of Langstone. Penhow Castle is privately owned. The area is also home to Penhow Quarry, owned by Hanson plc.

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Fields of sheep at Catsash

Governance

The Member of Parliament for Newport East, which includes Langstone, is Jessica Morden (Labour) who assumed office in 2005. The Member of the Senedd for Newport East is John Griffiths, who assumed office in 1999.

Since May 2022 Langstone has been part of the 'Bishton and Langstone' electoral ward, which elects two councillors to Newport City Council. [9] The 2022 election resulted in the election of two Conservative (UK) councillors to represent the ward.

A ward called Langstone existed until 2022, which also covered the communities of Penhow and Llanvaches (ward population 2,770 [10] ).

Amenities

Langstone Primary School celebrated its 50th birthday in 2004, and currently has about 300 pupils. Until the 1970s the school intake stretched as far as Nash, Goldcliff, Whitson, Llanwern, Bishton and Llandevaud. The school is now serving simply Langstone and its surrounds. [11]

Pupils receiving a Welsh-medium education have the Welsh-medium Ysgol Gymraeg Casnewydd  [ cy ] as their local school.

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References

  1. ↑ "Newport ward 2011" . Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Labour Market Statistics".
  3. ↑ "Ancestry® - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records". freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Heatwave unveils ancient settlements in Wales". 7 July 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  5. ↑ Cadw. "Parish Church of Langstone, Langstone, Newport (Grade II) (2919)". National Historic Assets of Wales . Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  6. ↑ "Langstone Church". Netherwent Ministry Area. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  7. ↑ "All Saint's Church, Kemeys Inferior". Coflein. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "St Curig's Chapel, Cat's Ash". Coflein. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  9. ↑ Emily Gill (17 August 2020). "New plan could see Newport get an extra councillor". Wales Online . Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  10. ↑ "Local statistics - Office for National Statistics". www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  11. ↑ Council, Newport City. "Langstone Primary School, Newport". www.langstoneprimary.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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