Although Trafalgar Park was given to the Newport community in the pre-Newport 'Township' era form the 1880's on, it is Newport Oval that has proved to be a gathering place for fun from the late 1950's on. It began as a call for a sportsground at Newport Beach, and began the way many of these projects in Pittwater commenced, with the residents of that place designing and paying for other sports facilities first - specifically, in this case, a swimming pool at the north end of Newport Beach.
