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Newton Green
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Wide-angle panorama of Newton Green from 80 metres, looking east. Wyelands House is central in the distance
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Newton Green
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51°37′21″N2°41′46″W / 51.62251°N 2.69622°W / 51.62251; -2.69622

Newton Green is a hamlet in Monmouthshire north of Mathern. It is part of the parish and modern community area of Mathern.

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A map of Newton Green made of a strip of the 1845 tithe map (with property numbers) overlaid on the 1887 OS map. Newton Green map overlay.jpg
A map of Newton Green made of a strip of the 1845 tithe map (with property numbers) overlaid on the 1887 OS map.
The war memorial in Newton Green at the southern end of Chapel Lane. DM2025 The war memorial in Newton Green.jpg
The war memorial in Newton Green at the southern end of Chapel Lane.
Mathern Mill on Bailey's Hay, west-northwest of Newton Green,last operational in 1968. DM2025 Mathern Mill on Bailey's Hay.jpg
Mathern Mill on Bailey's Hay, west-northwest of Newton Green,last operational in 1968.

Geography

The hamlet lies on conglomerate sedimentary bedrock, specifically Mercia Mudstone Group marginal facies, formed between 252.2 and 201.3 million years ago in the Triassic period. In the area it lies by other types of mudstone from the same Group; all are common to the region down to the River Severn, typically reddish or yellowish and underlie Mathern, Pwllmeyric to the north and much of the Bulwark part of Chepstow to the east. Elevations are between 20 and 23 metres. Mounton Brook, which has its sources in the sandstone hills northwest of Mathern, passes to the east along with the old leat for Mathern Mill. [1] [2]

History

The whole area has long been occupied. There are Bronze-Age remains evident [3] as are signs of the Roman road which was followed roughly by the modern A48 Newport-Chepstow road to the north through what is now Pwllmeyric [4] . Newton Green was originally a large post-mediaeval 'village' green. [5] It appears on survey maps going back 200 years, centred on the area immediately southwest of the junction of Chapel Road and the road (unnamed on most maps) leading through Mathern to the A48. [6] [7] [8] The area around the houses of Newton Green, including much land north until the A48, east to the A466 link road and south past the M4 motorway, was designated part of the old Conservation Area. [9] [10] The construction of the M4 through the area from 1964 (with the section opening in 1967) bisected the parish. [11] [12]

In 1894, the crops of the area were listed as being divided between grass and corn (Mathern Mill was a corn mill) [8] , with two principal landowners: Charles Lewis, lord of the manor, deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace [13] resident at St. Pierre and Rev. Robert Vaughan Hughes, resident of the Wyelands estate (which remained in his family through the 20th century) that lies past the old quarry and Rose Cottages on the east of Newton Green. [14]

Archaeology and Scheduled Monuments

Human Geography and Local Government

As of 2022, Newton Green is in the community and community ward of Mathern, and the electoral ward of Shirenewton. It is in the catchment area of The Dell Primary School and Chepstow School. [32] For the electoral ward, the 2021 Census recorded 2119 residents, a density of 59.4 people per square kilometre. Deprivation is low; more than half the population is in managerial, professional or administrative employment. Of the economically active, 97% are in employment. [33]

The member of parliament for the area is Catherine Fookes of the Labour Party, representing the Monmouthshire constituency as of 2024. [34]

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  2. ↑ "Mercia Mudstone Group (Marginal Facies)". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
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