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Newark Castle in 2013, overlooking the River Trent Newark Castle and Bridge circa 1812, before it was restored by Anthony Salvin. Newark Castle, in Newark-on-Trent in the English county of Nottinghamshire, was founded in the mid 12th century by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. Originally a timber castle, it was rebuilt in stone towards the end of ...
Bridge is the name given to the ward [2] and suburb of Newark-on-Trent in the Newark & Sherwood district in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It is one of the seven wards on Newark Town Council .
Newark-on-Trent (/ ˌ nj uː ər k-/) [1] or Newark [2] is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. [3] It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. [4] The A1 road bypasses the town on the line of the ancient Great North Road.
Starting at Essex Bridge it includes ferries; road, rail, foot and pipe bridges found along the river to Trent Falls. Fords are only indicated where they predate a known crossing point. In Downstream (2008), author Tom Fort notes that over eighty historic crossings have been identified, most of which were fords or ferries. [ 1 ]
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The ward covers the western part of the town which covers the surrounding area of Newark Castle and the Cattle Market Roundabout of the A46 road. The area is also served by Newark Castle railway station on the Nottingham-Lincoln Line. [4] It is situated close to Newark Town Centre.
The eastern terminus begins on the A46 Newark bypass, at the roundabout with the A616, on the former route of the Great North Road in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, as a trunk road. It traverses the Trent Valley, crossing the River Trent at a Kelham Bridge (a narrow bridge only really passable by light traffic). Kelham ...
The Nottingham Corporation appointed a committee to rebuild the bridge. [3] The work, carried out in 1684, installed stone arches. [5] The number of spans in the river was reduced to 15, over a distance of around 538 feet (164 m); when taken with an adjacent roadway support structure and two flood-relief arches the overall length was 205 metres (673 ft), somewhat shorter than the structure it ...