Newport is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Telford and Wrekin in Shropshire, England. It lies 7 miles north-east of Telford, 12 miles west of Stafford, and is near the Shropshire-Staffordshire border. The 2001 census recorded 10,814 people living in the town's parish, which rose to 11,387 by the 2011 census.