Editing Caerleon (section)

====Other sports====
Caerleon [[Bowls]] Club has an outdoor green and recently became home of the city's Newport Athletic [[Bowls]] Club which moved from [[Rodney Parade]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10364182.community-destroyed-as-newport-bowls-club-turfed-out-after-100-years/ |title='Community destroyed' as Newport bowls club turfed out after 100&nbsp;years |website=South Wales Argus |date=18 April 2013 |language=en |access-date=2019-02-27}}</ref> The association football club [[Caerleon A.F.C.]] is based in Caerleon along with two [[rugby union]] clubs; [[Newport High School Old Boys RFC]] and [[Caerleon R.F.C.|Caerleon RFC]] whose grounds are less than a mile apart. Both rugby clubs have large junior sections and Caerleon Junior Youth Football Club is a substantial junior football club. Bulmore Lido was opened in Caerleon in July&nbsp;1934 land with an open-air swimming pool, cafe and restaurant,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caerleon.net/archive/photos/bulmore.htm |title=The Bulmore Lido, Caerleon also Bullmore Bullmoor |publisher=caerleon.net |access-date=15 December 2016}}</ref> closing in the 1980s.

[[Newport Racecourse]] at Caerleon staged [[National Hunt racing]] from the 1840s until its closure in 1948. It hosted the [[Welsh Grand National]] at Easter&nbsp;1948, the only time the race was held at Newport.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pitt |first1=Chris |title=A Long Time Gone |date=2006 |publisher=Portway |pages=390–393| location=Halifax |isbn=1901570622 |edition=Rev. and updated}}</ref> Following the closure of the course the Welsh Grand National was transferred to [[Chepstow Racecourse|Chepstow]]. The racecourse also staged the [[International Cross Country Championships]] on six occasions between 1906 and 1951.<ref>{{cite web |title=International Cross Country Championships, Caerleon 1951 |url=http://www.caerleon.net/archive/photos/c_country.htm |publisher=Caerleon.net |access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref> The course was located on what is now the golf club and the comprehensive school.<ref>{{cite map |title =Monmouthshire XXIX.9 |map-url = |date=1920 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/135198982 |series=25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref>