Newark on Trent

Newark-on-Trent or Newark is a market town and common ward in the Newark and Sherwood area of the district of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. It remains on the River Trent, the A1 – on the course of the old Great North Road and the East Coast Main Line railroad. The roots of the town are perhaps Roman, as it lies on an essential Roman street, the Fosse Way. The town developed around Newark Castle, now demolished, and an extensive commercial center, now fixed with notable structures. It was an inside for the fleece and fabric exchanges.

In the English Civil War, it was blockaded by Parliamentary powers and must be eased by Prince Rupert, in a fight known as the Relief of Newark. The inceptions of the town are perhaps Roman because of its situation on a critical Roman street, the Fosse Way. In a report which implies to be a sanction of 664, Newark is specified as having been allowed to the Abbey of Peterborough by Wulfhere. An Anglo-Saxon agnostic graveyard, utilized from the mid 5th to the mid 7th hundreds of years, has been found in Millgate, in Newark, near both the Fosse Way and the River Trent in which incinerated remains were covered in stoneware urns.