Place:Coedkernew, Monmouthshire, Wales

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Coedkernew (Welsh: Coedcernyw) is a community in the southwest of the City of Newport, Wales. It is part of the Marshfield electoral ward.

Despite being a mostly rural parish to the south and west, the north and east is a continuation of the Duffryn built-up area, and has seen large increases in population in recent years due to the continued suburbanisation of Newport. This built-up area of Coedkernew forms a crescent around Duffryn and as such, much newly built housing in the Duffryn area actually falls within Coedkernew. According to the UK census of 2001 the parish or community had a population of 573.

This area contains the giant LG plant, three business parks or industrial parks, the Patent Office, Office for National Statistics, and Tredegar House.

The following quotation allows comparison with Coedkernew of 1870:

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Coedkernew from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"COEDKERNEW, a parish in Newport [registration] district, Monmouth[shire]; adjacent to the South Wales railway, 1½ mile NE of Marshfield [railway] station, and 4 SW of Newport. Post town: Newport, Monmouth. Acres: 765. Real property: £1, 078. Population: 163. Houses: 29. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of St. Bride-Wentllooge, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is good."

Tredegar House

Tredegar House (Welsh: Tŷ Tredegar) is a 17th-century Charles II-era country house mansion in Coedkernew, at the western edge of the city of Newport, Wales. For over five hundred years it was home to the Morgan family, later Lords Tredegar; one of the most powerful and influential families in the area. Described as "The grandest and most exuberant country house"[1] in Monmouthshire and one of the "outstanding houses of the Restoration period in the whole of Britain",[1] the mansion stands in a reduced landscaped garden of 90 acres (0.36 km2) (0.14 of a square mile) forming the non-residential part of Tredegar Park. The property became a Grade I listed building on 3 March 1952[2] and has been under the care of the National Trust since March 2012. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Wikipedia article on Tredegar House also contains a section entitled "The Tredegar Morgans 1402–1951".

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