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NEWARK (NEWARK-UPON-TRENT)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEWARK (NEWARK-UPON-See also:TRENT)  , a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:borough in the See also:Newark See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Nottinghamshire, See also:England . Pop . (1901) 14,992 . It lies in a See also:flat, fertile See also:lowland near the junction of the See also:river See also:Devon with the See also:Trent, but actually on the Devon . By means of a See also:canal m. in length it is connected with the Trent See also:navigation . It is 120 M . N.N.W. from See also:London by the See also:Great See also:Northern railway, and is on the Melton See also:Mowbray See also:joint See also:branch of that See also:company and the London & See also:North-Western, and on the See also:Nottingham & See also:Lincoln branch of the Midland railway . The See also:church of St See also:Mary Magdalene, one of the largest and finest See also:parish churches of England, is specially notable for the beauty of the See also:tower and of the octagonal See also:spire (223 ft. high) by which it is surmounted . The central piers of the old church, dating from the 11th or 12th See also:century, remain, and the See also:lower See also:part of the tower is a See also:fine example of See also:Early See also:English when at its best . The upper parts of the tower and spire are Decorated, completed about 1350; the See also:nave See also:dates from between 1384 and 1393, and the See also:chancel from 1489 . The See also:sanctuary is bounded on the See also:south and north by two See also:chantry chapels, the former of which has on one of its panels a remarkable See also:painting from the " See also:Dance of See also:Death." There are a few old monuments, and an exceedingly fine See also:brass of the 14th century . The See also:castle, supposed to have been founded by Egbert, See also:king of the See also:West See also:Saxons, was partly rebuilt and greatly extended by See also:Alexander, consecrated See also:bishop of Lincoln in 1123, who established at it a See also:mint .

It rises picturesquely from the river, and from its position and great strength was for a See also:

long See also:time known as the " See also:key of the North." Of the See also:original See also:Norman stronghold the most important remains are the See also:gate-See also:house, a See also:crypt and the lofty rectangular tower at the south-west See also:angle . The See also:building seems to have been reconstructed in the early part of the 13th century . In the reign of See also:Edward III. it was used as a See also:state See also:prison . During the Great See also:Rebellion it was garrisoned for See also:Charles I., and endured three sieges . Its dismantling was begun in 1646, immediately after the surrender of the king . There is a very beautiful and interesting See also:cross (the " Beaumond " cross) of the latter part of the 15th century in See also:good preservation in the town . A See also:grammar and See also:song school was founded in the reign of See also:Henry VIII., and endowed by See also:Archdeacon See also:Magnus, and there are other considerable charities . The other See also:principal public buildings are the town-See also:hall in the Grecian See also:style (erected in 1774), the See also:corn See also:exchange (1848), the Stock library and See also:Middleton newsroom (1828), the See also:mechanics' institution (1836), a See also:free library and a fine See also:hospital (1881) . There is a large See also:trade in See also:malt, See also:coal, corn and See also:cattle . There are See also:iron and brass foundries, See also:boiler-See also:works, agricultural See also:implement manufactories and breweries . See also:Gypsum and See also:limestone are obtained in the neighbourhood, and See also:plaster of See also:Paris is extensively manufactured . The town is governed by a See also:mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors .

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Area 1931 acres . Newark (Newer-See also:ea, Nouwerk) owed its origin, possibly in See also:Roman times, to its position on the great road called the See also:Fosse Way, in the valley of the Trent . In a document which purports to be a See also:charter of 664 Newark is mentioned as having been granted to the See also:abbey of See also:Peterborough by See also:Wulfhere . In the reign of Edward the See also:Confessor it belonged to See also:Godiva, who granted it to the monastery of See also:Stow, and it remained in the hands of the bishops of Lincoln until the reign of Edward VI . The castle was erected by Bishop Alexander in 1123, and the See also:bridge about the same time . Under See also:Stephen a mint was established . There were burgesses in Newark at the time of the Domesday Survey, and in the reign of Edward III. there is See also:evidence that it had long been a borough by See also:prescription . It was incorporated under an See also:alderman and twelve assistants in 1549, and the charter was confirmed and extended by See also:Elizabeth . Charles I., owing to the increasing commercial prosperity of the town, reincorporated it under a mayor and aldermen, and this charter, except for a temporary surrender under See also:James II., has continued the governing charter of the See also:corporation . Newark returned two representatives to See also:parliament from 1673 until 1885 . A weekly market on Wednesdays, and a See also:fair on the See also:eve, See also:day and morrow of the Invention of the See also:Holy Cross, granted to the bishop of Lincoln by See also:John, are still held; another fair at St Mary Magdalene and the four preceding days was granted by Henry III., and is probably represented by the fair now held on the 14th of May . A market for corn and cattle is still held on Wednesdays, and another on Tuesdays for See also:fat stock has been added .

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John Allen John Married Rebecca nee Wilson from Dunham at St Mary Magdalene Church 4-11-1828 ,they were publicans at the Robin Hood Inn from 1830 to 1838 ,then they moved to Alfreton Derbyshire to keep the George and Dragon Inn I am looking for Old photos of the Robin Hood Inn also to find out were John Allen was born,is children went to a private school in Newark One of his sons George went to London ,where he was apprenticed as a joiner and cabinetmaker in his uncle's building business at Clerkenwell.he went to a drawing class at a Working Mans College John Ruskin was the teacher and he became John Ruskin's assistant. Ruskin gave him is first big job that was to cataloguing Turner the painter' Bequest to the National Gallery ,he worked for eight months period, during which time nineteen thousand pieces of paper containing over six thousand drawings were catalogued Ruskin engaged John Henry L Keux to teach him how to engrave,to cut a long story short John became Ruskin,s engraver and Publisher and a Ruskin scholar as published a book about John Allen ,he also collected minerals which Oxford University Museum of Natural History purchased for two hundred pounds on his death. John Allen was my GT GT GT Grandfather, can any one please help me in my quest Kind Regards Les Allen
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