Newport, Wales name "Novus Burgus", meaning new borough or new town. The city can sometimes be found labelled as "Newport-on-Usk" on old maps. The original Welsh language name for the city, "Casnewydd-ar-Wysg" (pronounced ) means 'New castle-on-Usk' (this is a shortened version of "Castell Newydd ar Wysg") and this refers to the twelfth-century castle ruins near Newport city centre. The original Newport Castle was a small motte-and-bailey castle in the park opposite Newport Cathedral. It was buried in rubble excavated from the Hillfield railway tunnels that were dug under Stow Hill in the 1840s and no part of it is currently visible.
River Wear of Britain may very well be the River Wear. The name may be derived from Brythonic "*wẹ:drā", which meant 'a bend' (c.f Welsh "gwair"). Also suggested is a possible derivation from the Brythonic root "*wei-", which is thought to have meant 'to flow'. The name 'Wear' has also been explained as being an ancient Celtic name meaning 'river of blood'. River Wear The River Wear (, ) in North East England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland. At long, it is one of the region's longest