Newport
Newport is a city as well as unitary authority area in south eastern Wales, on the River Usk near to its assemblage with the Severn Estuary, 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 develops part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area, with a population of 1,097. Newport has been a port given that middle ages times, when the very first Newport Castle was developed by the Normans. The community outgrew the earlier Roman town of Caerleon, promptly upstream, and also gained its first charter in 1314. It expanded substantially in the 19th century, when its port came to be the focus of coal exports from the eastern South Wales Valleys. Till the rise of Cardiff from the 1850s, Newport was Wales' largest coal-exporting port. Newport was the site of the last massive armed insurrection in Britain, the Newport Increasing of 1839 led by the Chartists. This was led by the Chartist John Frost which caused the re-branding of the Duffryn High School right into John Frost School. In the 20th century, the docks declined in significance, however Newport stayed a vital production as well as design centre. It was approved city condition in 2002. Newport held the Ryder Cup in 2010 and also was the location for the 2014 NATO summit.
