Newton Green

The hamlet lies on conglomerate sedimentary bedrock, specifically Mercia Mudstone Group marginal facies, formed between 252.2 and 201.3 million years ago in the Triassic period. In the area it lies by other types of mudstone from the same Group; all are common to the region down to the River Severn, typically reddish or yellowish and underlie Mathern, Pwllmeyric to the north and much of the Bulwark part of Chepstow to the east. Elevations are between 20 and 23 metres. Mounton Brook, which has its sources in the sandstone hills northwest of Mathern, passes to the east along with the old leat for Mathern Mill.{{cite web|url=https://geologyviewer.bgs.ac.uk/|title=Geol|website=British Geological Survey|access-date=5 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=MMMF|title=Mercia Mudstone Group (Marginal Facies)|website=British Geological Survey|access-date=5 January 2025}}

The whole area has long been occupied. There are Bronze-Age remains evident{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/414837?term=newton%20green|title=Round Barrow Cropmarks at Newton Green|website=Coflein|access-date=5 January 2025}} as are signs of the Roman road which was followed roughly by the modern A48 Newport-Chepstow road to the north through what is now Pwllmeyric.{{cite web|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/102346106|title=Monmouthshire Sheet XXXI|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=8 January 2025}} Newton Green was originally a large post-mediaeval 'village' green.{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT06210g|title=Newton Green|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}} It appears on survey maps going back 200 years, centred on the area immediately southwest of the junction of Chapel Road and the road (unnamed on most maps) leading through Mathern to the A48.{{cite web|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/257577032|title=Sheet XXXV|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=5 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/189241860|title=ST59SW-A|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=5 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/101454255|title=Gloucestershire Sheet LXII.NW|website=National Library of Scotland|access-date=6 January 2025}} The area around the houses of Newton Green, including much land north until the A48, east to the A466 link road and south past the M4 motorway, was designated part of the old Conservation Area.{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/410751/|title=Mathern and Newton Green Villages|website=Coflein|access-date=4 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://datamap.gov.wales/maps/new#/|title=DataMap Wales|website=DataMap Wales|access-date=5 January 2025}} The construction of the M4 through the area from 1964 (with the section opening in 1967) bisected the parish.{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008113930/http://www.iht.org/motorway/m4severn.htm|title=M4 Severn river crossings|website=Internet Archive|access-date=5 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.roads.org.uk/motorway/chronology?year=1967|title=Chronology Maps|website=roads.org.uk|access-date=5 January 2025}}

In 1894, the crops of the area were listed as being divided between grass and corn (Mathern Mill was a corn mill), with two principal landowners: Charles Lewis, lord of the manor, deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace{{cite book|last=Montgomery-Massingberd|first=Hugh|title=Burke's Irish Family Records.|year=1976|publisher=Burkes Peerage Ltd.|location=London|page=683}} resident at St. Pierre and Rev. Robert Vaughan Hughes, resident of the Wyelands estate (which remained in his family through the 20th century) that lies past the old quarry and Rose Cottages on the east of Newton Green.{{cite book|title=Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales|year=1895|publisher=Kelly's Ltd.|location=London|page=78|url=https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/337195}}

• Bronze Age round barrow in field south of Newton Green and east of the fishing ponds (location: 51.61855,-2.69443)
• Ffynnaun Elichguid, a well and boundary feature, earliest recording in the year 655 (location: 51.62465, -2.69454).{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT01206g|title=Ffynnaun Elichguid|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Mathern Mill and House (location: 51.62147, -2.70137). A mill existed on mapping from the 14th century. It is referred to in a court roll from 1571 and included in the return of Thomas Lewis of St. Pierre in 1585. The current mill is believed to have internal structure from the 18th century with the exterior not changed past the 19th century. The machinery was last used in 1968. Behind the mill from the road is the remains of an associated post-mediaeval structure.{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT01202g|title=Mathern Mill|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=2732|title=Mathern Mill and attached house|website=Cadw|access-date=6 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT09727g|title=Post-mediaeval structure|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Hollow way from Mathern Mill to Mathern Palace, likely of mediaeval times (location: 51.6213,-2.7012).{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT03079.0g|title=Hollow way Mathern Mill-Palace|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Hollow way (from the village, location: 51.61884, -2.69637).{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT11460g|title=Hollow way Mathern Mill Chepstow|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Leats east and west of Mathern Mill Farm (location:51.61927, -2.69787).{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT11450g|title=Leat, west of Mathern Mill Farm, Chepstow|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT11449g|title=Leat, east of Mathern Mill Farm, Chepstow|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Post-mediaeval bridge stonework (location: 51.61782, -2.69775).{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT11459g|title=Stonework in stream, Mathern Mill, Chepstow|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Wyelands House (also the gardens and other features separately)(location: 51.62412, -2.68959).{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/21161/|title=Wyelands House|website=Coflein|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Rose Cottage gardens (location: 51.62165, -2.69231).{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/309215/|title=Rose Cottage gardens|website=Coflein|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Swynswell, a 'Jones class D' well (location: 51.6203, -2.6944).{{cite web|url=https://archwilio.org.uk/her/chi3/report/page.php?watprn=GGAT01205g|title=Swynswell|website=Archwilio|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• The Old School and the telephone call box at the Old school (location: 51.62028, -2.69468).{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/96055/archives|title=Telephone Call Box, Old School, Mathern|website=Coflein|access-date=7 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=24071|title=The Old School|website=Cadw|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Model cottages (1891 almshouses, location: 51.62024, -2.69400).{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/310451/|title=Model Cottages, 2, Mathern|website=Coflein|access-date=7 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/417376/|title=Model Cottages, No 3, Mathern|website=Coflein|access-date=7 January 2025}}
• Newton Green war memorial (location: 51.62233, -2.69818).{{cite web|url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=24064|title=Full Report for Listed Buildings|website=Cadw|access-date=7 January 2025}}

As of 2022, Newton Green is in the community and community ward of Mathern, and the electoral ward of Shirenewton. It is in the catchment area of The Dell Primary School and Chepstow School.{{cite web|url=https://maps.monmouthshire.gov.uk/localinfo.aspx?MapSource=Monmouthshire/Monmouth&StartEasting=352168.7&StartNorthing=191694.5&StartZoom=250|title=Local info|website=Monmouthshire|access-date=8 January 2025}} For the electoral ward, the 2021 Census recorded 2119 residents, a density of 59.4 people per square kilometre. Deprivation is low; more than half the population is in managerial, professional or administrative employment. Of the economically active, 97% are in employment.{{cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=W37000082|title=Shirenewton Ward (as of 2022)|website=2021 Census Data|access-date=8 January 2025}}

The member of parliament for the area is Catherine Fookes of the Labour Party, representing the Monmouthshire constituency as of 2024.{{cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/5291/contact|title=Catherine Fookes|website=UK Parliament|access-date=2 January 2025}}

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