Newport (GB)

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Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority in south east Wales. It is located on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn estuary, approximately 11 miles (18 km) east of Cardiff.

Newport has been a port since medieval times, when a castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream, and gained its first charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century, when its port became the focus of coal exports from the eastern valleys of South Wales. Until the rise of Cardiff from the 1850s, Newport was Wales' largest coal-exporting port. It was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839 led by the Chartists.

Newport was allocated numeral 561 in the 1844 issue of postal marks.

N.B. For Newport-on-Tay Scotland Click Here

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Newport

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used as a receiver

Sideways duplex postmark type II, Newport to Bassalleg 11 Feb 1856 1d Red Die II Plate 17

1d cover with Red Manuscript (Paid) on the 6th May 1840 (1d Black stamp release day, however paid in cash ppaid at bottom left) to Thomas Dalton Esq. Solicitors, Cardiff.

Newport Mon 1902

Sub-Offices

Bedwas

Bedwas moved from being a sub-office of Cardiff to being a sub-office of Newport in 1924 and remained so until 1999 when it became a sub-office of Caerphilly.

N.B. Used under Sub-Office of Cardiff in 1906

Army Barracks Post Office (Raglan)

Army Official ½ds used in 1901

The barracks were built as a cavalry barracks and completed in 1845.

During the First World War they were known as the Cavalry Barracks and served as the 4th cavalry depot providing accommodation for the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), the 3rd Dragoon Guards, the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, the Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards), the 7th Dragoon Guards and the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.

The barracks were renamed Raglan Barracks after FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan in 1963. They are now home to 104th Regiment Royal Artillery. [1]