Peterstone or Peterstone Wentlooge () is a small
village
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to the south west of the
city
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of
Newport,
South Wales
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.
Location
Peterstone Wentlooge lies six miles to the west of Newport city centre and 7½ miles east of
Cardiff
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city centre.
It lies in the community
parish
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of
Wentloog
Wentlooge (), sometimes known as Wentloog, is a community in the southwest of the city of Newport, South Wales, in the Marshfield ward. The community includes Peterstone Wentlooge and St. Brides Wentlooge and in 2011 had a population of 737.
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and
electoral ward
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of
Marshfield.
History and amenities
Like most of the settlements on the
Wentlooge Level it lies on land reclaimed from the
Bristol Channel
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Peterstone itself lies right against the
sea wall Sea Wall or The Sea Wall may refer to:
* Seawall, a constructed coastal defence
* Sea Wall, Guyana
* ''The Sea Wall'' (novel), 1950 French novel by Marguerite Duras
* ''The Sea Wall'' (film), 2008 film based on Duras' novel
See also
*'' This Ang ...
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The former parish church, St Peter's Church, Wentlooge, St Peter's is now a private hous
The local pub
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, the Six Bell
closed in 2018.
Manor claim 2004
The village became the focal point of press attention in 2004 as
Mark Roberts (businessman), Mark Roberts had previously bought the
Lord of the Manor
Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a historical rural estate. The titles date to the English Feudalism, feudal (specifically English feudal barony, baronial) system. The ...
title and then went to charge villagers excessive fees to cross what had always been used freely as their own land. Matters were raised in parliament and were debated with a reply on the subject from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs acknowledging 'need for reform of the remnants of feudal and manorial law'.
Hansard, 3 Feb 2004 : Column 204WH, 3 Feb 2004 : Column 205WH
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See also
* Peterstone Gout
References
External links
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Villages in Newport, Wales
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