Newport
Newport is a small market town in Shropshire, and contains the ancesteral-ish home of JTA, who usually lives there when he isn’t in Aberystwyth. Statto also lives near it in the middle of nowhere, known as Pickstock.History
Newport was originally founded as a small fishery to provide fish for the nearby manor of Edgmond. The lake which provided the fish necessary for a fishery has long since disappeared, leaving Newport slightly damp for most of the year and neither new nor a port.
In 1665, a great fire destroyed much of the town and kick-started a trend in great fires which culminated in the Great Fire of London the very next year.
The Town
Modern Newport is a commuter town with more hairdressers per capita than anywhere else in the World. It also has a surplus of opticians, pubs and off-licences to cater for the large number of myopic drunkards from the local schools.
Tourism
The first thing which makes Newport notable as a must-see for any tourist passing through Shropshire is the old-established Adams’ Grammar School, a building which has now been standing for more years than that aggressive country in the New World has had independence from colonial rule.
The second thing which makes Newport notable as a must-see for any tourist passing through Shropshire is the fact there’s nothing a tourist would want to look at within fifteen miles of the place.