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Newark-on-Trent (/ ˌ nj uː ər k-/) or Newark is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. The A1 road bypasses the town on the line of the ancient Great North Road.
Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire, on the edge of Sherwood Forest, with a population in 2011 of 27,700. It’s best known as the place where King Charles I surrendered during the English Civil War.
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May 21, 2024 · Newark-on-Trent, town, Newark and Sherwood district, administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, east-central England. It lies along the River Trent at the crossing of the Roman Fosse Way road with the modern Great North Road (A1). The earliest known occupation of the site was in Anglo-Saxon times.
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Newark-on-Trent is a market town in Nottinghamshire, on the edge of Sherwood Forest, with a population in 2011 of 27,700. It’s best known as the place where King Charles I surrendered during the English Civil War. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. newark.gov.uk. Wikivoyage. Wikipedia. Photo: Mfloryan, CC BY 2.5.
Map of Newark, c.1920 (click on the image to view a larger version of the map). River traffic grew in quantity during the 18 th century but it was not until the 1772 Act to improve the Trent that locks were built at Newark thus ensuring it became a busy inland port with warehousing, boat building and wharfages based around the Town Lock.
The name of the city is thought to derive from Newark-on-Trent, England, because of the influence of the original pastor, Abraham Pierson, who came from Yorkshire but may have ministered in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
