Newtown

Newtown (Welsh Drefnewydd; anc. Llanfair Cedewain), a manufacturing town of Montgomeryshire, North Wales, on the Severn and the Montgomery Canal, 13 miles SSW. of Welshpool. It is the centre of the Welsh flannel manufacture, and also produces tweeds, shawls, &c. With Montgomery, &c., it returns one member. Robert Owen was a native. Pop. (1851) 6371; (1891) 6610.