Place:Malpas, Monmouthshire, Wales

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Malpas is community (parish) of the city of Newport, Wales. The area is governed by the Newport City Council. In 2011 it had a population of 7,997 according to the UK census of that year.

The ward is bounded by the A4042 road Heidenheim Drive to the east, the city boundary to the north, Malpas Brook to the west, and Bettws Lane, Llanover Close, and the western and northern edges of Graig Wood, Yewberry Lane and Grove Park Drive to the south. There are two large housing estates, one on either side of the main Malpas Road, the A4042.

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

"MALPAS, a parish, with a village, in Newport [registration] district, Monmouth[shire] ; on the Brecon and Newport canal and on the Eastern Valleys railway, adjacent to the river Usk, 1¾ mile NNW of Newport. Post town: Newport, Monmouth. Acres: 988. Real property, £2,234. Population: 304. Houses: 59. The property is divided among a few.

"Malpas Court is the seat of T. Protheroe, Esq. A Cluniac priory, a cell to Montacute abbey in Somerset, was founded here, in the time of Henry I., by William de Balun; and was given, at the dissolution, to the Herberts. The living is a Vicarage in the diocese of Llandaff. Value, £100. Patron, T. Protheroe, Esq. The church belonged to the priory: is in rough Norman architecture, of unhewn stone, and in good condition; has neither aisle nor spire: and contains stalls and an effigies of the 14th century. There is a national school.

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