The nineteenth-century Canal Basin at Newtown comprised a large rectangular terminal dock surrounded by seven boat-loading arms, each large enough to take two narrow-boats. The canal company built two circuits of roads around the wharves and these wre lined with workers housing and ancilliary buildings including twenty-two limekilns. Although the area has been redeveloped it is still possble to make out the course of the wharf walls and the seven dock arms.
Source The Industrial Archaeology of The Montgomeryshire Canal, 1981, Stephen Hughes
RCAHMW 2008