Newtown, Powys

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Newtown
Welsh: Y Drenewydd

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Newtown town centre

Newtown (Welsh: Y Drenewydd) is a town with a population of 10,783 (2001) lying on the River Severn in Powys, mid Wales. The town is best known as the birthplace of Robert Owen in 1771, his former house now being a museum.

Newtown was founded in the thirteenth century and grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around the textile and flannel industry and the arrival of the Montgomeryshire Canal. In 1838, the town saw Wales' first Chartist demonstration.

The town was designated as a "new town" in 1967 and has seen a large population growth as companies and people have settled, changing the rural market town character.

Other attractions in the town include a museum about W. H. Smith newsagents, a textile museum, the Royal Welsh Warehouse built by Pryce Pryce-Jones to house the world's first mail order service, a theatre, and an arts centre. Gregynog, a country house which is now owned by the University of Wales and built by Lord Davies of Llandinam, is nearby.

Newtown hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1965.

Newtown has an office for the County Times newspaper.

In Fireman Sam, Penny Morris lives in Newtown until 2005.

[edit] External links

Newtown.org.uk - Official Newtown Website
NewtownWales.co.uk - Newtown Website
Newtown-MC.co.uk - The Newtown And District Automobile Club Ltd
NewtownLive.co.uk - Newtown News and Entertainment guide
NewtownTitans.com - Newtown Titans U15 basketball team
Newtown High School's Website - The Website for the only secondary school in Newtown

Coordinates: 52°30′47.36″N, 3°18′50.84″W

	Towns on the River Severn, UK	edit
Heading downstream: Llanidloes \| Newtown \| Welshpool \| Shrewsbury \| Bridgnorth Bewdley \| Stourport \| Worcester \| Tewkesbury \| Gloucester \| Berkeley \| Bristol