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Liswerry, Newport — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Liswerry is a ward and community of Newport in South Wales, holding the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome and Newport International Sports Village.
About Liswerry
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A track meeting fills this ward faster than anything else, since the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome and Newport International Sports Village pull crowds to a corner of Newport with few beds of its own. Dragon Park sits on the same ground. Rooms in the city centre answer better, leaving Liswerry for the day and St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church as the landmark to steer by on the way back.
About Liswerry
What are the main landmarks in Liswerry?
Sport dominates the entries. Newport International Sports Village, the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome and Dragon Park account for three of the five entries the record gives Liswerry. St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church covers the fourth.
Friends of the Newport Ship completes the list, an entry belonging to the city at large rather than to any single street in Lliswerry, and the rest of the ward is housing.
What is the history of Liswerry?
Council lines shaped it. Newport City Council governs Liswerry as one of its wards, and the community it covers is the largest the city draws, so the name reaches over ground well beyond any single street. Llyswyry is the official form.
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church is the one church on the record here, and the sporting sites, Dragon Park, the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome, account for most of what the register attaches to the ward.
Where is Liswerry?
The ward is the city's largest. Liswerry, also written Lliswerry, is a community of Newport in South Wales, governed with the rest of the city by Newport City Council.
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Updated September 2026