Newport
Newport is a city as well as unitary authority location in south east Wales, on the River Usk near its confluence with the Severn Tidewater, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Cardiff. At the 2011 census, it was the third biggest city in Wales, with a population of 145,700. The city creates part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, with a population of 1,097. Newport has been a port since middle ages times, when the first Newport Castle was constructed by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman town of Caerleon, promptly upstream, as well as gained its initial charter in 1314. It expanded substantially in the 19th century, when its port became the focus of coal exports from the eastern South Wales Valleys. Up until the surge of Cardiff from the 1850s, Newport was Wales' biggest coal-exporting port. Newport was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Britain, the Newport Climbing of 1839 led by the Chartists. This was led by the Chartist John Frost which caused the re-branding of the Duffryn High School into John Frost School. In the 20th century, the docks decreased in importance, but Newport continued to be an essential production and also engineering centre. It was provided city standing in 2002. Newport hosted the Ryder Cup in 2010 and also was the place for the 2014 NATO summit.
