Parc-Seymour

Parc-Seymour, is a hamlet in Newport, Wales. It is north of the A48 Newport-Chepstow road, 10 kilometres east-northeast of Newport, within the ancient parish of Penhow, the hamlet of which lies east-southeast of Parc-Seymour. thumb|Groes Wen Inn, by the A48 near Parc-Seymour.thumb|Baptist Church by the A48. ==Etymology== The name is a combination of the Welsh word Parc [park] and the name Seymour, after that branch of the family which owned Penhow Castle and its surrounding. The Norman French descendant William de St Maur obtained Penhow and Undy and over time the spelling was corrupted to Seymour.

==Geography== Most of the area around the hamlet is sandstone, forming the upland parts known as Kemeys Graig and Bertholeys Graig, to the west and north. Nearly all of the dwellings in the hamlet lie on Brownstones Formation sandstone, formed between 419.2 and 393.3 million years ago during the Devonian period; this bedrock also passes to the south of the A48. A small margin (in the ones to tens of metres) to the north, east and south of the hamlet, underlying a small number of dwellings, is bedrock of Quartz Conglomerate Formation (Forest Of Dean type), sandstone and conglomerate interbedded, formed between 372.2 and 358.9 million years ago during the Devonian period. To the east, northest, and spreading south, the bedrock is Tintern Sandstone, Devonian and Carboniferous rock between 372.2 and 346.7 million years old. Elevations are from 43 metres in the southwest where the western stream reaches the A48 and 170 metres in Castell-prin wood in the northwest.