The Parrog was Newport's port, busy in the Middle Ages with the wool trade. Pieces of the old quay walls survive along with two former lime kilns, and the sailing club is in an old warehouse. It has a small beach of its own and moorings for small boats.
The coast path runs west from here along the shore towards Cwm-yr-Eglwys and Dinas Island, and the Victorian painter John Brett once moored his 210-ton schooner here while he spent summers painting the Welsh coast.