IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
High Street, NEWPORT, NP18 1AH

Large stucco 18th century house. The house was one of the locally listed buildings by Newport City Council in 1995 and is of course in the Conservation Area.

This part of High Street is between Ffwrwm Arts & Crafts Centre https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5950509 and the corner of White Hart Lane out of shot ahead.

The Mynde House is in the grounds of a house named Castle Villa and later The Mynde. Mynde House doesn't seem to be listed but the crenelated garden wall is Grade II Listed. In 1839 John Jenkins, owner of Castle Villa, was frightened by the possibility of violence and destruction of property by the Chartist Movement and built the wall right round his property to protect it. It encompassed Caerleon Castle and is now in six different ownerships. A plaque on Mynde House wall in Castle Lane tells this story. The present Mynde House was probably built after the Woolletts acquired the Castle Villa about 1870; it is still described as Castle Villa in 1887. The new Mynde House was incorporated into John Jenkins' wall. Talk of a dispute with the owner of Caerleon House, across the street is said to be the reason of the strangely recessed roof and set back dormer windows. On the other hand it provides a balcony. In a 1927 sale, the property is described as including; a basement cellar; a ground floor vestibule with a tessellated tiled floor, a dining room, a drawing room, a morning room, a china pantry, kitchen, scullery and larder; first floor four bedrooms, two dressing rooms, a box room, linen room, bathroom and lavatory; second floor three bedrooms. There were also stables, a coach house and fruit store at that time.

Double yellow lines on both sides of this narrow part of the B4236 High Street indicate no parking at any time. For vehicles this is a one-way street, direction ahead.

In the pavement on the right here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5950509 marking the location of the south gate of the ancient Roman legionary fortress of Isca Silurum (or Isca Augusta), the present-day suburban village of Caerleon. The name Caerleon probably derives from the Welsh for Fortress of the Legion.

According to a plaque, the wall to the right was built by the local land owner to protect his estate against Chartist riots in 1839.

From High Street. Though the name in view is FFWRRWM, the business's website has Ffwrwm, Welsh for a bench or seat, derived from the Latin word forum.

The plaque on the wall here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5950240 records that in 1839 after the failure of petitioning the Government, some men of Britain and especially South Wales sought to change the voting system and extend the right to vote, through marches and demonstrations - known as the Chartist Uprising. John Jenkins, owner of the Mynde House and Master of Ponthir Tinplate Works, concerned for his property, constructed the Mynde Wall to keep marauding demonstrators out. The wall on which the plaque is fixed is what remains of his efforts.

The High Street side of a 20-room house in Castle Lane. The house has about three and a half acres of gardens and grounds. A 19th century addition to the house is the Mynde Wall, a stone wall built by tinplate magnate and local sheriff John Jenkins in 1839 as protection against the Chartists who were becoming increasingly belligerent in their campaign to extend the entitlement to vote beyond men who owned property.