Celtic Manor Resort | |
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Location within Newport, Wales
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General information | |
Location | Newport, South East Wales |
Address | Coldra Woods, The Usk Valley, Newport NP18 1HQ |
Coordinates | 51°36′11″N 2°55′57″W / 51.60306°N 2.93250°W |
Opening | 1982 |
Owner | Sir Terry Matthews |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 11 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 400 |
Number of suites | 32 |
Number of restaurants | 5 |
Website | |
http://www.celtic-manor.com/ |
The Twenty Ten clubhouse
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Club information | |
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Location | Newport, south Wales |
Established | 1994 |
Type | Private |
Owned by | Terry Matthews |
Total holes | 54 |
Tournaments hosted | 2010 Ryder Cup, Celtic Manor Wales Open |
Website | celtic-manor.com/golf |
The Twenty Ten Course | |
Designed by | Ross McMurray |
Par | 71 |
Length | 7,493 yards |
The Montgomerie Course | |
Designed by | Colin Montgomerie |
Par | 69 |
Length | 6,371 yards |
Roman Road Course | |
Designed by | Robert Trent Jones |
Par | 69 |
Length | 6,600 yards |
Celtic Manor Resort is a golf, spa and leisure hotel and resort in Newport, South East Wales. It consists of three hotels (The Resort Hotel, Manor House Hotel and Coldra Court Hotel), a country inn, luxury lodges, two spas, 6 restaurants, three championship golf courses (The Twenty Ten Course, The Montgomerie Course and Roman Road Course), two golf and country clubhouses (the Twenty Ten clubhouse and the Lodge clubhouse), high ropes courses, adventure golf, laser tag, archery and a multi-purpose conference centre. It was the venue for the 2010 Ryder Cup, the first to be held in Wales, and hosted the 2014 NATO summit.
The resort, owned by Sir Terry Matthews, is located on the south-facing side of Christchurch Hill in eastern Newport, overlooking Junction 24 of the M4 motorway. The golf courses extend over the ridge and down the north-facing side of the hill into the Vale of Usk, with views up to the Wentwood escarpment. The resort covers 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of land.
The earliest record of a building on the resort site was 1634, when it was the residence of the High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, Lewis Van.
The Manor House was built in 1860 by Thomas Powell, the largest coalmine owner in the South Wales coalfield, the world's biggest coal exporter and the first coal millionaire. Powell's son, Thomas Powell Jnr, and his bride Julia Jenkins were given the mansion as a wedding gift when they married in 1859. They named it Coldra Hall.