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Lower Machen
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<p>Lower Machen is a small <a href="/facts/Hamlet_(place)/tmS0fHpM">hamlet</a> of 19 houses on the <a href="/facts/A468_road/KXnyctBJ">A468 road</a> at the very western edge of the <a href="/facts/City/2uNRFqAN">city</a> of <a href="/facts/Newport%2c_Wales/JEVSdlAq">Newport</a>, <a href="/facts/South_Wales/G2YuSorj">South Wales</a>. </p><p><a href="/facts/Machen/cvdnacb9">Machen</a> itself lies further west in the <a href="/facts/County_borough/4fg1TUKm">county borough</a> of <a href="/facts/Caerphilly_(county_borough)/JLutLJgK">Caerphilly</a>, although both lie within the <a href="/facts/Historic_counties_of_Wales/dMw2n3MN">historic boundaries</a> of <a href="/facts/Monmouthshire_(historic)/yzwnoFKD">Monmouthshire</a>. </p><p>Lower Machen holds an annual festival of <a href="/facts/Chamber_music/t29NTzh5">chamber music</a> concerts in the 12th-century <a href="/facts/Church_(building)/gtw3YSsd">church</a> of St. Michael and All Angels. <a href="/facts/Ruperra_Castle/IpcSYmtY">Ruperra Castle</a> is also located in Lower Machen. Lower Machen was formerly served by <a href="/facts/Church_Road_(B%2526MJR)_railway_station/TtSM0Pn8">Church Road railway station</a>, which closed in 1957. The Conservative politician, <a href="/facts/Peter_Thorneycroft/WGKJnvUH">Peter Thorneycroft</a>, lived at <a href="/facts/Machen_House/amoSFoUj">Machen House</a> in the hamlet, during his time as <a href="/facts/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)/VegqN6nl">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/facts/Monmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)/fAjs50XH">Monmouth</a> from 1945-1966. <a href="/facts/Plas_Machen/0JtXQHjT">Plas Machen</a>, to the south-east of the village on the other side of the A468, is an <a href="/facts/Elizabethan_era/DMfrDl3t">Elizabethan</a> <a href="/facts/Manor_house/9jNlcART">manor house</a>, the ancestral home of the <a href="/facts/William_Morgan_(of_Machen_and_Tredegar)/UerMyAX8">Morgans of Tredegar</a>. It is a <a href="/facts/Listed_building/PPx6CnfU">Grade II* listed building</a>. </p>