Newport Castle is a castle ruin in the city of Newport, South Wales and is a Grade II* Listed building. It is the castle that gives Newport its name in the Welsh language, Castell Newydd, shortened to Casnewydd ('New Castle'). The 'new' is a reference to the 'old' Roman fortress in nearby Caerleon or the older motte and bailey castle on Stow Hill.
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“The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story;
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)