Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Newport

Newport, vil., St Stephen by Launceston par., Cornwall, on W. side of Launceston, from which it is separated by a small inlet of the river Tamar; sent 2 members to Parliament until 1832, when it was incorporated with Launceston.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: St Stephens AP/CP/ExP       Cornwall AncC
Place: Newport

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