[1] Langstone is situated on the eastern edge of the city and is one of Newport's more affluent areas, less than a mile from Junction 24 of the M4 motorway.

In 1891 Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire noted that Llanbedr was a hamlet, one and a half miles north-east of the parish, on the road from Newport to Chepstow.

[2] In July 2018, after a long period of warm dry weather, crop marks of a prehistoric or Roman farm near the village were revealed.

The site was recorded by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) before it disappeared again with the next rains.

The Member of Parliament for Newport East, which includes Langstone, is Jessica Morden (Labour) who assumed office in 2005.

Until the 1970s the school intake stretched as far as Nash, Goldcliff, Whitson, Llanwern, Bishton and Llandevaud.