Places to explore in and near Newport

A medieval castle in Newport.

0.3 km NE

Cathedral church of the diocese of Monmouth on Stow Hill in Newport, keeping a fine Norman arch and nave.

0.6 km S

Towering 1906 transporter bridge over the River Usk, one of very few of its kind still standing, with a restored visitor centre.

2.1 km S

Steep flight of locks on the Monmouthshire Canal at Rogerstone, an 18th-century engineering feat with towpath walks and a visitor centre.

3.1 km W

Britain's best-preserved Roman amphitheatre and barracks.

3.6 km NE

National Trust Restoration mansion and formal walled gardens of the Morgan family on the western edge of Newport.

3.7 km SW

Historic town on the Usk just outside Newport, built over the Roman legionary fortress of Isca with its amphitheatre, baths and barracks.

3.9 km NE · Newport

RSPB reserve of reedbed, saltmarsh and lagoons on the Severn estuary at Nash, with birdwatching hides and a lighthouse walk.

5.4 km SE

Walk the outline of a whole nation — 870 miles of cliff, estuary and beach from Chepstow round to Queensferry.

1.7 km SE · spans 16 counties

Prominent hillfort-topped summit above Cwmcarn with views to Cardiff Bay and the Bristol Channel.

8 km NW

The mountain connoisseur's route over the roof of Wales — Cardiff to Conwy by way of the Bannau, the Cambrian wilderness and Eryri.

8 km NW · spans 9 counties

Forest park in the Ebbw Valley with a scenic drive, mountain-bike trails and the Twmbarlwm walk.

9.3 km NW

Large reservoir in the hills between Usk and Pontypool, with a visitor centre, lakeside trails and watersports.

10.9 km N

Flat-topped sandstone summits, waterfall gorges and dark skies along the roof of south Wales.

12.8 km N

Historic parkland known locally as the People's Park, rising to the Folly Tower and Shell Grotto.

13 km N

Rebuilt 18th-century tower on Pen-y-Wain hill above Pontypool with sweeping valley views.

13.1 km N

Victorian public park with a boating lake, botanic gardens and a lighthouse clock tower commemorating Captain Scott.

15.3 km SW

Rhymney Valley town at the foot of its great medieval castle, and the source of Caerphilly cheese.

15.3 km W · Caerphilly

Vast moated fortress with a famous leaning tower.

15.6 km W

Edwardian gardens near Caerwent with a rare underground network of tunnels, ferneries and grottoes, buried for decades and rediscovered in the 1990s.

15.8 km E

Ridge between Cardiff and Caerphilly with panoramic views and open common land.

15.9 km W

Village built within the surviving walls of the Roman town of Venta Silurum, with long stretches of Roman masonry still standing.

16 km E · Monmouthshire

A wooded river gorge winding along the Wales–England border, past Tintern Abbey down to Chepstow.

17.7 km E

An elegant Grade I Victorian pier of 1869 reaching into the Bristol Channel, called by Betjeman the most beautiful in England.

18.6 km SE

Victorian fairytale castle in the woods.

18.7 km W

A 33 m heated pool on the Portishead seafront, saved by a community campaign in 2008 and run by a local charity since.

18.8 km SE

A walled sea-water lake of 1929 beside the beach at Clevedon, topped up by the big tides and free to swim all year.

19.1 km SE

A remote hillside inn above the Usk valley in the Bannau Brycheiniog foothills, county winner in 2024.

19.2 km N

Edwardian seaside pier with a restored 1929 Art Deco pavilion housing a cinema and gallery.

20.7 km SW

Victorian and Edwardian seaside town on the Severn Estuary, with a restored pier and Art Deco pavilion.

20.9 km SW · Vale of Glamorgan

Industrial-heritage town in a UNESCO World Heritage landscape, home to Big Pit and the Blaenavon Ironworks.

21.5 km N · Torfaen

Former colliery at Blaenavon in the World Heritage industrial landscape, with an underground tour led by ex-miners; free entry.

21.8 km N

Preserved 18th-century ironworks with blast furnaces and workers' cottages, part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site.

21.9 km N

Open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in the grounds of St Fagans Castle, with formal Italianate gardens and fish ponds.

22.1 km SW

One of the last great castles built in Britain, its hexagonal Great Tower slighted after a long Civil War siege.

22.2 km NE

Village on Cardiff's western edge, best known as home to the National Museum of History.

22.4 km SW · Cardiff

A rock-cut cave and cliff-edge viewing platform above the Wye, part of the 18th-century Piercefield picturesque walks, named for a lost statue of a boulder-hurling giant.

22.9 km E

Britain's oldest stone castle above the Wye.

23.1 km E

Two flooded quarry lakes near Penarth with waymarked trails and a reconstructed medieval village.

23.1 km SW

Gateway town to the Wye Valley, with a Norman castle above the river, surviving medieval town walls and the Port Wall gate.

23.2 km E · Monmouthshire

Small upland pool on the shoulder of the Blorenge, a former ironworkers' reservoir now a popular walking start with mountain views.

23.3 km N

The length of the Welsh borders, tracking the eighth-century earthwork that once divided kingdoms.

23.4 km E · spans 8 counties

Coastal headland where Marconi made the first radio transmission over open sea in 1897.

23.5 km SW

Cliff-top lookout above the Wynd Cliff near St Arvans, the highest point on the Monmouthshire bank of the Wye, reached by a long flight of steps.

23.6 km NE

Glacial hollow on the eastern flank of the Blorenge holding a small lake ringed by old beech pollards; a Woodland Trust site.

23.6 km N

The National Lido of Wales, a 1927 pool in Pontypridd's war memorial park, derelict for years and reopened in 2015.

23.7 km W

William Edwards's elegant single-span stone bridge of 1756 over the River Taff.

23.7 km W

Riverside park in Pontypridd, home to the restored National Lido of Wales.

23.7 km W

Reclaimed colliery valley near Deri, now a country park with a lake, trails and visitor centre.

24.6 km NW

Bristol Channel island where Marconi sent the first radio signals over open sea, with Victorian gun batteries and a lighthouse

24.7 km S

Caerleon's Roman fortress to Brecon, following the Usk by riverside path and canal towpath under an otter's-head waymark.

3.8 km NE · Powys, Monmouthshire & Newport

The mountain canal of the Bannau Brycheiniog, contouring high above the Usk from Brecon toward Pontypool.

9 km N · Powys, Monmouthshire & Torfaen

Long-established country inn on the edge of Caerphilly near Rudry.

11 km W

Country pub with rooms in a former 17th-century farmhouse near Usk, serving home-cooked food and local ales.

13 km NE

Wooded valley garden on Cardiff's northern edge, planted with rhododendrons and azaleas that flower in late spring.

13.9 km W

Traditional family-run pub on the square at Usk, long popular with locals and walkers.

14.4 km NE