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Newark on Trent

"Newark-Upon-Trent is an ancient and well-built market town, borough and parish, pleasantly situated in the middle of a fertile district, at the junction of the Great North Road with the turnpikes from Lincoln, Nottingham, Sheffield &c., and on the lines of the Great Northern and Midland Railways, both of which have neat and convenient stations. It is 124 miles north by west of London, 8 miles east of Southwell, 21 miles north-east by east of Nottingham, 20 miles south-south-wast of Retford, and 16 miles south-west of Lincoln, and is the capital of the hundred and deanery to which it gives name. In 1851 it contained 11,330 inhabitants and 2,080 acres of land.
The trade of the town consists principally in making malt, ale, flour, linen and smock frocks, to a considerable extent. There are in the town and neighbourhood several breweries, 20 corn mills, and a considerable number of malt kilns, and an extensive linen manufactory (Hawton Mills), where fine linen is bleached after the irish manner. The malt made in 1851 amounted to 88,065 quarters."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdelene.
  
  
• The church was built in the 15th century.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1855.
  
  
• The parish was also served by the Anglican church of Saint Keonard's at North Gate and Christ Church.
  
  
• The Catholic Church was on Parliament Street.
  
  
• The Baptist Chapel was on Albert Street.
  
  
• The Particular Baptist Chapel was on Victoria Street.
  
  
• The Congrgationall Chapel was on Lombard Street.
  
  
• The Methodist New Connexion Meeting Hall was at Barnby Gate.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodist chapel was on Parliament Street.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapels were at Barnby Gate and North Gate.
  
  
• The Unitarian chapel was on King's Road.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was the centre of the Newark Registration District for Civil Registration.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Newark is a municipality, a township, a market town and a parish. It sits on the Trent River, 15 miles south-west of the city of Lincoln in neighboring Lincolnshire, 17 miles north-east of Nottingham and 124 miles north of London by road. The parish covers 1,889 acres, but the Municipality is much larger than that.

If you are planning a visit:

• Check out the town at Jimella's site.
  
  
• By automobile, take the A46 trunk road southwest out of Lincoln or take the A1 northwest out of Grantham.
  
  

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Directories

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference for the parish is SK 7953.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #271 map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became the centre of the Newark Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Population
1801	6,730
1851	11,321
1871	12,187
1881	14,083
1891	14,571
1901	14,992

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Schools

• The Grammar School at Appleton Gate was founded in 1529 by Thomas MAGNUS.
  
  
• Christ Church School for Boys on Albert Street was built in 1843.
  
  
• Christ Church School for Girls was on Portland Street.
  
  

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