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Holiday Parks UK (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The Wye Valley is an area of outstanding natural beauty and if you want somewhere you can relax, unwind and explore then this is the place for you. The Wye Valley and the Vale of Usk is the area where England meets Wales and you will be able to take in natural and wonderful countryside and explore the market towns and villages such as Abergavenney, Monmouth and the valleys down to Chepstow and Newport...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
NEWPORT, Wales (Reuters) - Not far from the first tee on the Twenty Ten course at Celtic Manor, across the gleaming new suspension bridge over the River Usk, stands the town of Caerleon, where legend has it King Arthur held court.
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
NEWPORT councillors yesterday backed an idea to create a museum to house Newport’s famous medieval ship. Cabinet members agreed that the 15th century trading vessel was internationally important and should be used to promote Newport to visitors, at a meeting yesterday. The Newport ship was discovered on the backs of the River Usk in 2002 and is the only substantial remains of a ship of its type...
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Record of a baffled spirit (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
Newport has a rich underground life with cellars, many interconnected stretching from street to street . None of these cellars, basements and tunnels are as yet inhabited by werewolves, vampires or ghouls but the premises are there, desirable and vacant to let. One of the more interesting and persistent legends are those focused on the supposed secret passages in and around Newport Castle. One went...
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icWales (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
A BODY has been recovered from the River Usk in Newport.
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Record of a baffled spirit (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
If I live in a place, I like to know where the ghosts are placed. If I lived in anyone of the three houses numbered, 27 to 29 Stow Park Avenue I’d like to know I was drinking my coffee on the site of the Motte and Bailey Castle that Robert Fitzhamon first built there shortly after 1093; look out my window and see my fifteen serfs and cottars cultivating my surrounding 150 acres of arable land....
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Record of a baffled spirit (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
It was the black rat that spread the plague, but this rat, I think you'll agree, has attitude. The best accounts of how the Black Death affected Gwent come from manorial rolls. These show that the Manors of Abergavenny, Monmouth, Usk and Caldicot suffered particularly badly with rent receipts less than a third of a normal year. There is no written evidence of how the Plague affected the small marsh...
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Record of a baffled spirit (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
The Red Baron Gilbert de Clare inherited Newport and surrounding lands in a roundabout fashion. They initially belonged to the Countess Isabel, Grand-daughter of William, Earl of Gloucester. She can be excused for marrying King John; choice didn’t really come into it. King John however, despite his unexpected sagacity in granting Liverpool its first Town Charter, was not a woman’s man....
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Email Showcase (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
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icWales (Free subscription) | 24/06/2009
CARDIFF beat Sully Centurions in the third round of the Gwalia Welsh Cup on Sunday and will now play either Newport or Usk in the zone final for a place in the last four of the competition.
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the DeafBlog (Free subscription) | 16/04/2009
A teenager is indulging her love of animals and wants to inspire other deaf youngsters to follow their dreams. Elinor Scott, 17, of Newport, Wales, is the only deaf student at Coleg Gwent College's Usk campus. She helped organise...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 26/03/2009
IT looks like gloop from the River Usk. But as Mike Buckingham finds out, where there's muck there's an historical treasure trove. MUD, mud, apparently inglorious mud stored in 50 building waste bags may contain historical gold relating to Newport's mediaeval ship. "And just as the old prospectors panned for gold we are going to have to sift through this lot to get it to reveal its treasure"...
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BuildaSkill (Free subscription) | 27/01/2009
Britain’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have announced the date, location, content, and theme of their 2009 conference. The theme is to be “Firing up the British Economy” and the location is at Celtic Manor in the Usk Valley near Newport, South Wales. Dell, Visa, the Co-Operative Bank, British Gas and the Health and Safety Executive [...]
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Paul Flynn - Read My Day (Free subscription) | 13/12/2008
It was an evening that a 100 children and their parents will never forget.They made a stream of light across Newport’s new footbridge. It was cold, stormy and raining. But none were deterred. The mighty Usk was in full flow....
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GENEALOGE (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Bunfight 2008 near Pensford Somerset - misty morning on river Severn near Gloucester, river Usk at Newport, and the river Wye below Chepstow - a set on Flickr The Carpenters Arms | Country Pub | Restaurant | Fine Ales | Carefully Selected Wines | Places to eat | Stanton Wick | Somerset : "Converted from a row of charming miners' cottages, the Inn has become a popular retreat over the years for...
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