NEWPORT

Station Information

Station ID: 1832
Latitude: 51.55
Longitude: -2.987444
Coastline code: 170
Station code: 173
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of data: 1993 – 2023
Completeness (%): 69
Date of last update: 02 Feb 2024

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: CARF
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: npor

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2000-04-25

Newport, Gwent 170/173 RLR(1995) is 15.5m below BM AUX 3

Documentation added 2001-01-02

Recent work on vertical land movements in the UK can be found from the University of Nottingham web site: http://ukcogr.iessg.nottingham.ac.uk/~eosi/

Documentation added 2014-07-03

TGI visited the site on 08.02.2013 to change the compressor. During March 2013 the primary channel was blocking and reading up to ~80mm high. From April to September the primary channel was blocking up to 70mm high. TGI re-visited the site on 05.12.2013 and carried out general maintenance.

Documentation added 2015-06-02

Channel2 was reading ~40mm high most has been flagged during processing so for most of the year there is no viable data available. Channel1 the backup channel was working throughout. TGI were at site 18.06.14 for general maintenance and to change the compressor.

Data Authority

Horizon House
Deanery Road
BS1 5AH
Bristol