Bettws (Welsh: Betws) is a large modern housing estate, electoral ward and coterminous community (parish) of the city of Newport, South Wales.

The name of the village comes from the Middle English word bedhus, meaning "prayer house", which became betws in Welsh.

The estate was built around the 17th-century parish church of St David in Bettws, which is the likely origin of the name 'Bettws', a place of prayer or private chapel.

[3] The ward is bounded by Malpas to the east, the city boundary with Torfaen to the north, Rogerstone to the west, and the M4 motorway and Allt-yr-yn to the south.

[citation needed] In the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner election, held on 15 November 2012, a polling station at Malpas Cricket Club recorded no votes from the 8,737 voters.