Somerton Park
Somerton Park is a stadium in Liswerry, United Kingdom that opened in 1912. Its recorded capacity is 25,000.
Key facts
Somerton Park is a stadium in Liswerry, United Kingdom that opened in 1912. Its recorded capacity is 25,000. It is owned by Demolished. It is operated by W.R. Lysaght's Works Committee and Newport City Council. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Newport County A.F.C., Newport Wasps, Greyhound Racing, Newport County A.F.C..
- Location
- Liswerry, United Kingdom
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 25,000
- Opened
- 1912
- Status
- Demolished
- Current owner
- Demolished
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
Somerton Park is at latitude 51.583603, longitude -2.965144, in Liswerry, United Kingdom. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 51.583603 |
| Longitude | -2.965144 |
| City | Liswerry |
| Region | Liswerry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
| Role | Organization | Period | Status | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | Demolished | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
| Operator | W.R. Lysaght's Works Committee and Newport City Council | Present | Current | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport County A.F.C. | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Newport Wasps | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Greyhound Racing | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Newport County A.F.C. | Not mapped | 1912 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
8 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372231338 | 2026-09 |
| 23 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Somerton_Park | Somerton Park | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18369 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18368 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18367 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18366 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 18365 | 2026-09 |
| 20 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 5560 | 2026-09 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: