Newport, Gloucestershire

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Newport, Gloucestershire (see Gloucestershire) is a small English village on the A38 road. It is about a mile east of Berkeley, and is on the Doverte Brook, a tributary of the Little Avon River. It has a pub ('The Stagecoach'), a motel ('The Newport Towers'), and a small non-conformist chapel. The chapel closed October 2006 and it has a Georgian Interior with hat pegs and galleries and several broken harmoniums.

Newport is situated halfway between Bristol and Gloucester and during the 18th and 19th centuries the journey between the towns was a day's travel. It was a perfect staging point for stagecoaches at that time. There were many inns, some catering for the post. The coaches would have a change of horses, the coachmen and passengers having a mid-journey rest stop.