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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 ...
Newark-on-Trent: Newark and Sherwood: History: Ruins of the medieval castle, exhibits about the castle's history and Newark's Civil War heritage Newark Town Hall Museum & Art Gallery: Newark-on-Trent: Newark and Sherwood: Art: website, collection of paintings, furniture, ceremonial silver and civic gifts Newstead Abbey Historic House & Gardens ...
Queen's Sconce, Newark on Trent. Sconce and Devon Park is a park in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England.It is the location of Queen's sconce, an earthwork fortification that was built in 1646 during the First English Civil War, to protect the garrison of King Charles I based at Newark Castle.
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King John died of dysentery in Newark Castle in 1216. [9] [10] [11] Newark Castle. The town became a local centre for the wool and cloth trade – by the time of Henry II a major market was held there. Wednesday and Saturday markets in the town were founded in the period 1156–1329, under a series of charters from the Bishop of Lincoln. [12]
Newark Castle is a well-preserved castle sited on the south shore of the estuary of the River Clyde in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland, where the firth gradually narrows from the Firth of Clyde and navigation upriver is made difficult by shifting sandbanks. For centuries this location was used to offload seagoing ships, and led to the growth ...
On 20 September they all took a trip to Newark Castle on the Yarrow which might, Wordsworth realized, be Scott's last. This day's journey was the occasion of two poems by Wordsworth, one a sonnet beginning "A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain", [ 57 ] and the other "Yarrow Revisited", written a few weeks later in October 1831. [ 58 ]
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. This list of museums in Delaware contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.