Uskmouth

Uskmouth (Welsh: Aberwysg) is an area in south-east Newport in the west of the village of Nash. It includes part of the Newport Wetlands Reserve (a notable wildlife reserve) with reedbeds and grasslands that attract breeding birds such as lapwings, redshanks, oystercatchers, little ringed plovers and ringed plovers, as well as visitors such as wigeons, shovelers, teals, shelducks and pintails, bitterns, hen harriers and short-eared owls.

Following storms in the autumn of 1986, a track of human footprints was discovered eroding out of the clays in the intertidal zone in front of Uskmouth Power Station. The footprints were found to contain peat deposits, allowing them to be carbon dated to 4200BC. This made them the oldest known human footprints in Britain.