Caerleon, Newport

(Caerllion)

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Caerleon is a town in Newport

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Caerleon within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Caerleon in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Caerleon, town with ry. sta., Llangattock par., S. Monmouthshire, on river Usk, 2½ miles NE. of Newport and 26 miles NW. of Bristol, pop. 1099; P.O., T.O. It was the Isca Silurum of the Romans, and at a later period a celebrated seat of religion and learning. In an adjacent field is an elliptical cavity called Arthur's Round Table, probably the relic of a Roman amphitheatre.

Caerleon in the Domesday Book

A village in Castlery hundred, in the county of Gloucestershire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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