England
South East England
Isle of Wight

Newport

Newport is the county town of the . It is in the centre of the island on the River Medina. It is the second largest town on the island, with a population of 24,000, slightly fewer than .
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  • Type: Town with 24,900 residents
  • Description: county town of the Isle of Wight, in England, UK
  • Also known as: “Newport IOW” and “Newport, Isle of Wight”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carisbrooke Castle and Newport Roman Villa.

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is a historic located in the village of , , England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial.

Museum
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was a Romano-British farmhouse constructed in 280 AD. It is located near to Newport, Isle of Wight.

Prison
is a Category B men's prison located in on the , and is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. Parkhurst prison is one of two former separate prisons that today make up HMP Isle of Wight, the other being Albany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wootton Bridge and Parkhurst.

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lies on the northeast coast of the , and is situated almost midway between the island’s historical capital of Newport and the Victorian gateway of .

Suburb
is a neighbourhood northwest of the town of Newport, . It has few amenities, but a large residential population. It is notable for housing H.M.P.

Village
Photo: Mypix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village on the south-western outskirts of Newport, in the civil parish of Newport and , , England. It is best known as the site of .

Newport

Latitude
50.7004° or 50° 42′ 1″ north
Longitude
-1.2952° or 1° 17′ 43″ west
Population
24,900
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NPO
Open location code
9C2WPP23+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2386521
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641599
Wiki­data ID
Q985594
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Newport” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Newport”
  • Basque: “Newport (Wight Uhartea)”
  • Basque: “Newport”
  • Belarusian: “Ньюпарт”
  • Bengali: “নিউপোর্ট”
  • Catalan: “Newport”
  • Cebuano: “Newport”
  • Chinese: “Newport”
  • Chinese: “紐波特”
  • Chinese: “纽波特”
  • Czech: “Newport”
  • Danish: “Newport (Isle of Wight)”
  • Danish: “Newport”
  • Dutch: “Newport”
  • Finnish: “Newport”
  • French: “Newport”
  • Galician: “Newport, illa de Wight”
  • German: “Newport (England)”
  • German: “Newport, Isle of Wight”
  • German: “Newport”
  • Greek: “Νιούπορτ”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂપોર્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “ניופורט”
  • Irish: “Newport, Inis Iocht”
  • Irish: “Newport”
  • Italian: “Newport”
  • Japanese: “ニューポート (ワイト島)”
  • Japanese: “ニューポート”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂಪೋರ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “뉴포트”
  • Ladin: “Newport”
  • Latin: “Medena”
  • Latin: “Newport”
  • Latvian: “Ņūporta (Anglija)”
  • Latvian: “Ņūporta”
  • Lithuanian: “Niuportas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Newport (Wight)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Newport”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Newport”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Newport på Isle of Wight”
  • Persian: “نیوپورت، جزیره وایت”
  • Polish: “Newport IOW”
  • Polish: “Newport, Isle of Wight”
  • Polish: “Newport”
  • Portuguese: “Newport”
  • Romanian: “Newport, Isle of Wight”
  • Russian: “Ньюпорт”
  • Scots: “Newport, Isle o Wight”
  • Scots: “Newport”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newport, Isle of Wight”
  • Slovenian: “Newport”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیوپورت، جزیره وایت”
  • Spanish: “Newport, isla de Wight”
  • Spanish: “Newport”
  • Swedish: “Newport, Isle of Wight”
  • Swedish: “Newport”
  • Tamil: “நியூபோர்ட்”
  • Telugu: “న్యూపోర్ట్”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньюпорт”
  • Urdu: “نیوپورت”
  • Volapük: “Newport”
  • Welsh: “Newport, Ynys Wyth”
  • Welsh: “Newport”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Newport”. Photo: Adrian Farwell, CC BY 3.0.