Newcastle is little more than a church, a few farms and a castle mound near the English border. It has kept a surprising amount of folklore for its size.
The best known item is an oak. According to the Great British Ghost Tour it was associated for many years with elves and fairies, who were said to meet there. Edmund Jones, writing about the fairies of Monmouthshire, explained why oaks were favoured: the fairies danced under oaks, especially the spreading "female" oak, and it was once thought dangerous to cut such a tree down. The Newcastle tree belongs to that belief.
The village also had a well with a reputation for healing and protection. In one farmhouse, a well inside the building was the scene of an apparition that one witness saw rising from its depths more than once, and the well has since been covered over. The motte, the "new castle" of the name, was said to be haunted by the ghosts of those who did evil there.
None of these are dated. They are recorded as village traditions from a single modern source.
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