Newport
Newport is a city and also unitary authority location in south eastern Wales, on the River Usk near to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, 12 miles (19 kilometres) northeast of Cardiff. At the 2011 census, it was the 3rd biggest city in Wales, with a population of 145,700. The city creates part of the Cardiff-Newport city, with a population of 1,097. Newport has been a port since medieval times, when the initial Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman town of Caerleon, quickly upstream, as well as obtained its first charter in 1314. It expanded considerably in the 19th century, when its port became the emphasis of coal exports from the eastern South Wales Valleys. Until the surge of Cardiff from the 1850s, Newport was Wales' largest 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 right into John Frost School. In the 20th century, the anchors decreased in relevance, yet Newport continued to be an essential manufacturing as well as engineering centre. It was approved city condition in 2002. Newport organized the Ryder Cup in 2010 as well as was the place for the 2014 NATO summit.