Amenities
The village hall, now unused, was for many years the site of an annual village fair at Whitsuntide which traditionally included a road-race run around the three parishes - a distance of about 6.5 miles. The village was the home for the Post Office for the three parishes for many years but this has now long since closed. The village has never been known to have had its own public house. There is a large electricity sub-station, operated by the National Grid, adjacent to the former site of Llanwern Steelworks near Whitson Arch. The local newspaper is the South Wales Argus which is published in Newport.
The village enjoys a regular public bus service (Route 63, seven a day, six days a week) provided by Veolia Transport Cymru.
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