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75-693: The Agricultural Organisation Society (AOS) arose from the merger of the British Agricultural Organisation Society, which had been founded in 1900 in Newark-on-Trent , Nottinghamshire by W. L. Charleton, and the National Agricultural Union, a largely dormant body originally created following a National Agricultural Conference held in London on 7 December 1892. The president of the National Agricultural Union, Robert Yerburgh ,

150-541: A bearings factory (part of the NSK group) with some 200 employees, and Laurens Patisseries, part of the food group Bakkavör since May 2006, which bought it for £130 million. It employs over 1,000. In 2007, Currys opened a £30 million national distribution centre next to the A17 near the A46 roundabout, and moved its national distribution centre there in 2005, with over 1,400 staff employed at

225-530: A by-election on 5 June 2014 after the resignation of Patrick Mercer , he was replaced by the Conservative Robert Jenrick , who was re-elected at the general election of 7 May 2015. Newark has three local-government tiers: Newark Town Council, Newark and Sherwood District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council . The 39 district councillors cover waste, planning, environmental health, licensing, car parks, housing, leisure and culture. It opened

300-458: A combined membership of 31,020. The increase in government funding during the First World War seems to have helped drive another surge in membership. By the end of the conflict in 1918, the number of affiliated societies was reported to have topped 1,000 and this figure continued to increase in the years afterwards, when a host of new societies were created, including South Shropshire Farmers and

375-566: A decade before in 1894. Originally the AOS’ remit was to cover the remainder of the British Isles but when it became apparent that this was overambitious, a separate Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society was formed in 1905, to be followed later, in 1922, by a Welsh Agricultural Organisation Society. Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act as an organisation entirely independent of

450-657: A few miles of Newark, many holding squadrons of the Polish Air Force . A plot was set aside in Newark Cemetery for RAF burials. This is now the war graves plot, where all but ten of the 90 Commonwealth and all of the 397 Polish burials were made. The cemetery also has 49 scattered burials from the First World War . A memorial cross to the Polish airmen buried there was unveiled in 1941 by President Raczkiewicz , ex-President of

525-836: A field on the town's outskirts, and in 2008 was acquired by Newark and Sherwood District Council. The torc was displayed at the British Museum in London until the opening of the National Civil War Centre and Newark Museum in May 2015. It is now shown in the museum galleries. Newark's churches include the Grade I listed parish church , St Mary Magdalene . Other Anglican parish churches include Christ Church in Boundary Road and St Leonard's in Lincoln Road. The Catholic Holy Trinity Church

600-611: A former Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries , Henry William Wolff , the founder and joint president of the International Co-operative Alliance , Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley , the founder of the pioneering Brandsby Agricultural Trading Association, Montague Fordham , the founder of the Land Club Union and author of Mother earth: a proposal for the permanent reconstruction of our country life ,

675-519: A former Speaker of the House of Commons, Viscount Ossington . It was designed to be a Temperance alternative to pubs and coaching inns. These changes and industrial growth raised the population from under 7,000 in 1800 to over 15,000 by the end of the century. The Sherwood Avenue Drill Hall opened in 1914 as the First World War began. In the Second World War there were several RAF stations within

750-707: A leisure centre in Bowbridge Road, opened in 2016. Newark and Sherwood Concert Band , with over 50 regular players, has performed at numerous area events in the last few years. Also based in Newark are the Royal Air Force Music Charitable Trust and Lincolnshire Chamber Orchestra. The Palace Theatre in Appletongate is Newark's main entertainment venue, offering drama, live music, dance and film. The National Civil War Centre and Newark Museum, next to

825-603: 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. After his death, Henry III tried to bring order to the country, but the mercenary Robert de Gaugy refused to yield Newark Castle to the Bishop of Lincoln , its rightful owner. This led to the Dauphin of France (later King Louis VIII of France ) laying an eight-day siege on behalf of

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900-460: A monument. RAF Winthorpe was opened in 1940 and declared inactive in 1959. The site is now the location of the Newark Air Museum . The main industries in Newark in the last hundred years have been clothing, bearings, pumps, agricultural machinery and pine furniture, and the refining of sugar. British Sugar still has one of its sugar-beet processing factories to the north of the town near

975-557: A national Civil War Centre and Newark Museum in May 2015. The area elects ten councillors to Nottinghamshire County Council. It provides children's services, adult care, and highways and transport services. The town has an elected council of 18 members from seven wards: Beacon (5 councillors), Bridge (3), Castle (2), Devon (5), Magnus (1), Sleaford (1) and South (1). Newark Town Council has taken on some responsibilities devolved by Newark and Sherwood District Council, including parks, open spaces and Newark Market. It also runs events such as

1050-503: A new bridge of oak with stone defensive towers at either end. In January 1571 or 1572, the composer Robert Parsons fell into the swollen River Trent at Newark and drowned. After the break with Rome in the 16th century, the establishment of the Church of England , and the dissolution of the monasteries , Henry VIII had the Vicar of Newark, Henry Lytherland, executed for refusing to acknowledge

1125-659: A number of publications, including an annual report and a monthly journal as well as a plethora of pamphlets. It helped found the Agricultural Wholesale Society and supported the creation of agricultural credit societies which were important in breaking down the traditional reluctance of farmers to borrow money. During the First World War the AOS actively supported the formation of a Women’s Institute movement in England and Wales. It provided Madge Watt with funds to establish

1200-503: A provision allowing the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to award money to any society which had as one of its objects the promotion of cooperation in connection with the cultivation of small holdings or allotments. Subsequently, the AOS was granted between £1,200 and £1,600 per annum for a period of three years starting from 1 April 1909, providing certain conditions were met. The AOS was to remain an independent body but one of these conditions

1275-896: A temporary surrender under James II , continued to govern the corporation until the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . In the English Civil War, Newark was a Royalist stronghold, Charles I having raised his standard in nearby Nottingham. "Newark was besieged on three occasions and finally surrendered only when ordered to do so by the King after his own surrender." It was attacked in February 1643 by two troops of horsemen, but beat them back. The town fielded at times as many as 600 soldiers, and raided Nottingham, Grantham , Northampton , Gainsborough and other places with mixed success, but enough to cause it to rise to national notice. In 1644 Newark

1350-618: A £25 million rebuild in 2016 after a long campaign. In 2020 the Suthers School opened, providing a new Secondary School for Newark The town's several primary schools include a new school in the Middlebeck development on the town's southern edge, opened in September 2021. Newark College, part of the Lincoln College, Lincolnshire Group, is situated on Friary Road, Newark, where it

1425-457: Is 21 miles (34 km) from Nottingham , 19 miles (31 km) from Lincoln and 40 miles (64 km) from Leicester . All are connected to the town by the A46 road . The town is also around 20 miles (32 km) from Mansfield , 14 miles (23 km) from Grantham , 19 miles (31 km) from Sleaford , 9 miles (14 km) from Southwell and 11 miles (18 km) from Bingham . Newark lies on

1500-486: Is home to the School of Musical Instrument Crafts. The School, which opened in 1972, has courses to train craftspeople to make and repair guitars, violins, and woodwind instruments, and to tune and restore pianos. British Sugar PLC runs a mill on the outskirts that opened in 1921. It has 130 permanent employees and processes 1.6 million tonnes of sugar beet produced by about 800 UK growers, at an average distance of 28 miles from

1575-636: Is made up of 317 English councils and the 22 Welsh councils through the Welsh Local Government Association.   The LGA is politically-led and cross-party. As the national voice of local government, it works on behalf of councils to give local government a voice with national government, to promote the reputation of the sector and to secure funding and powers on behalf of councils and the communities they serve. It aims to support councils to improve and innovate through peer-based support, and it co-ordinates collective legal actions on behalf of

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1650-565: Is on the River Trent , and was historically a major inland port . The A1 road bypasses the town on the line of the ancient Great North Road . The town's origins are likely to be Roman , as it lies on a major Roman road, the Fosse Way . It grew up around Newark Castle , St Mary Magdalene church and later developed as a centre for the wool and cloth trades. In the English Civil War , it

1725-712: The A46 road , is Farndon , and to the north Winthorpe . Newark's growth and development have been enhanced by one of few bridges over the River Trent, by the navigability of the river, by the presence of the Great North Road (the A1, etc.), and later by the advance of the railways, bringing a junction between the East Coast Main Line and the Nottingham to Lincoln route. "Newark became a substantial inland port, particularly for

1800-522: The A616 (Great North Road). There have been several factory closures especially since the 1950s. The breweries that closed in the 20th century included James Hole and Warwicks-and-Richardsons. Newark had a population of 30,345 at the 2021 census, a 10% increase from the 27,700 of the 2011 census . The ONS Mid Year Population Estimates for 2007 indicated that the population had risen to some 26,700. Another estimate (2009): "The population of Newark itself

1875-673: The Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 . Shortly afterwards the AOS moved into larger premises in Queen Anne's Chambers in Westminster and a new Board of Governors was appointed. In 1913 this had 36 members, 12 nominated by the Board of Agriculture, two each by the Association of County Councils and the Co-operative Union and 18 elected by affiliated societies alongside two others co-opted by

1950-525: The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Chester , became the head of the new organisation with A.T. Matthews as the secretary, although by the close of 1901 he had been succeeded by J. Nugent Harris. A Board of Governors was also created and during the lifetime of the AOS many leading figures from the world of British agriculture were to sit on this, including the Earl of Shaftesbury , Lord Strachie ,

2025-549: The Fosse Way . In a document which purports to be a charter of 664 AD, Newark is mentioned as having been granted to the Abbey of Peterborough by King Wulfhere of Mercia . An Anglo-Saxon pagan cemetery used from the early fifth to early seventh centuries has been found in Millgate, Newark, close to the Fosse Way and the River Trent. There cremated remains were buried in pottery urns. In

2100-702: The Victorian era . The buildings included the Independent Chapel (1822), Holy Trinity (1836–1837), Christ Church (1837), Castle Railway Station (1846), the Wesleyan Chapel (1846), the Corn Exchange (1848), the Methodist New Connexion Chapel (1848), W. N. Nicholson Trent Ironworks (1840s), Northgate Railway Station (1851), North End Wesleyan Chapel (1868), St Leonard's Anglican Church (1873),

2175-722: The repeal of the Corn Laws and other issues he stood elsewhere after that time. Newark elections were central to two interesting legal cases. In 1945, a challenge to Harold Laski , the Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party , led Laski to sue the Daily Express , which had reported him as saying Labour might take power by violence if defeated at the polls. Laski vehemently denied saying this, but lost

2250-605: The 1829 elections the Liberal/Radical candidate (Wilde), rather than his candidate, (Michael Sadler, a progressive Conservative). J. S. Baxter, a schoolboy in Newark in 1830–1840, contributed to The Hungry Forties: Life under the Bread Tax (London, 1904), a book about the Corn Laws : "Chartists and rioters came from Nottingham into Newark, parading the streets with penny loaves dripped in blood carried on pikes, crying 'Bread or blood'." Many buildings and much industry appeared in

2325-530: The A46 at Farndon, via Middlebeck to the A1 near Fernwood . The parliamentary borough of Newark returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Unreformed House of Commons from 1673. It was the last borough to be created before the Reform Act. William Ewart Gladstone , later Prime Minister , became its MP in 1832 and was re-elected in 1835, in 1837, and in 1841 twice, but possibly due to his support of

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2400-413: The AOS should instead be financed by its affiliated societies which by 1922 were reported to have a combined annual turnover of £11,179,422. However, although at the end of 1918 the AOS claimed to represent 1,100 affiliated societies, only 151 farmers' societies and 190 allotment societies had actually paid affiliation fees in 1917. Critics of the AOS in parliament also voiced concern over allegations that it

2475-766: The Baptist Chapel (1876), the Primitive Methodist Chapel (1878), Newark Hospital (1881), Ossington Coffee Palace (1882), Gilstrap Free Library (1883), the Market Hall (1884), the Unitarian Chapel (1884), the Fire Station (1889), the Waterworks (1898), and the School of Science and Art (1900). The Ossington Coffee Palace was built by Lady Charlotte Ossington, daughter of the 4th Duke of Portland and widow of

2550-732: The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Farmers Limited. Among its other aims, the AOS does seem to have had some successes in acting as a medium between affiliated members and government departments, county councils and railway companies. It is credited with playing a role in the establishment of schemes at Brandsby in Yorkshire and in the Teme Valley in Worcestershire in which railway companies purchased trucks specifically to carry produce at competitive rates to and from farms and local train stations. It also produced

2625-573: The British government, the AOS, which had its offices in Dacre House, Deere Street, Westminster , was at first solely financed by contributions from its members and supporters. However, as its workload continued to expand, especially following the enactment of the Smallholders Act 1907, it applied for government funding. Indeed, possibly in anticipation of this, the Smallholders Act specifically contained

2700-656: The Conservative MP Charles Bathurst and the Liberal MPs George Nicholls , who was the chief organiser of the AOS’ Allotment and Small Holdings section, and Francis Dyke Acland , as well as the Liberal and later Labour MP and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries , Noel Buxton . The model for the AOS was the successful Irish Agricultural Organisation Society which had been created nearly

2775-454: The Governors themselves. During the First World War government grants given to the AOS continued to increase until in 1918 it was reported to be receiving £10,000 from the Treasury through the Food Production Department, £4,000 from the Small Holdings Account and £5,800 from the Development Fund together with a grant equal to four times the amount of the Society's income from contributions from affiliated farmers' societies and another equal to

2850-449: The LGA merged with the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), Local Government Employers (LGE), Local Authority Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) and the Leadership Centre for Local Government. The IDeA, whilst wholly owned by the LGA, continues to exist as a company and the recipient of central government grant for improvement activities. The Leadership Centre is now an independent body based in North London. In April 2019,

2925-418: The LocAle and Weinfest, a museum in the Town Hall, and allotments. A new police station costing £7 million opened in October 2006. The town has three main mixed secondary schools . The older, Magnus Church of England Academy , founded in 1531 by the diplomat Thomas Magnus , lies close to the town centre. The Newark Academy is in neighbouring Balderton (previously The Grove School). It underwent

3000-451: The Palace Theatre in Appletongate in the town centre, opened in 2015 to interpret Newark's part in the English Civil War in the 17th century and explore its wider implications. The district was ranked in a survey reported in 2020 as one of the best places to live in the UK. The Newark Torc, a silver and gold Iron Age torc , was the first found in Nottinghamshire. It resembles that of the Snettisham Hoard . Uncovered in 2005, it occupies

3075-425: The Polish Republic and head of the wartime Polish government in London, supported by Władysław Sikorski , head of the Polish Armed Forces in the West and Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile in 1939–1943. When the two died – Sikorski in 1943 and Raczkiewicz in 1947 – they were buried at the foot of the monument. Sikorski's remains were returned to Poland in 1993, but his former grave in Newark remains as

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3150-417: The Welsh and Scottish agricultural organisation societies continue to operate as does the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society although it has been renamed the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Limited. Newark-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent ( / ˌ nj uː ər k -/ ) or Newark is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire , England. It

3225-483: The action. In the 1997 general election , Newark returned Fiona Jones of the Labour Party. Jones and her election agent Des Whicher were convicted of submitting a fraudulent declaration of expenses, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. Newark's former MP Patrick Mercer , Conservative held the position of Shadow Minister for Homeland Security from June 2003 until March 2007, when he had to resign after making racially contentious comments to The Times . At

3300-435: The amount of the subscriptions received. This rather complicated formula meant that by 1920 it was receiving a total yearly grant of £45,000 from the government. The AOS was registered in April 1901 as a non-party and non-trading body whose main purpose was to ‘secure the co-operation of all connected with the land, whether as owners, occupiers or labourers, and to promote the formation of agricultural co-operative societies for

3375-403: The bank of the River Trent, with the River Devon running as a tributary through the town. Standing at the intersection of the Great North Road and the Fosse Way , Newark originally grew around Newark Castle , now ruined, and a large market place now lined with historic buildings. Newark forms a single built-up area with the neighbouring parish of Balderton to the south-east. To the south, on

3450-402: The chief executive Joanna Killian. The LGA is represented on the Local Government Leaders' Council by its chair. On 1 April 1997, the Association of County Councils , the Association of District Councils and the Association of Metropolitan Authorities came together to form a single membership body for local government in England – the Local Government Association (LGA).  In 2010,

3525-410: The creation of a town hall next to the Market Place. Designed by John Carr of York and completed in 1776, Newark Town Hall is now a Grade I listed building, housing a museum and art gallery. In 1775 the Duke of Newcastle , at the time the Lord of the Manor and a major landowner in the area, built a new brick bridge with stone facing to replace a dilapidated one next to the Castle. This is still one of

3600-402: The defences was destroyed, including the Castle, which was left in essentially the state it can be seen today. The Queen's Sconce was left largely untouched; its remains are in Sconce and Devon Park . About 1770 the Great North Road around Newark (now the A616) was raised on a long series of arches to ensure it remained clear of the regular floods. A special Act of Parliament in 1773 allowed

3675-484: The factory. Of the output, 250,000 tonnes are processed and supplied to food and drink manufacturers in the UK and across Europe. At the heart of the Newark factory's operations is a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, with boilers fuelled by natural gas to meet the site's steam and electricity requirements and contribute to the grid enough power for 800 homes. The installation is rated under the government CHP environmental quality-assurance scheme. Other major employers are

3750-456: The first half of 1924. The AOS only functioned for just over two decades but many of the cooperatives it helped create, such as Worcestershire Farmers Limited, continued to thrive throughout much of the twentieth century and even, in some cases, beyond. After its demise, some of the work of the AOS was continued by the Allotments Organization Society and Small Holders Limited but no real successor organisation ever appeared in England. In contrast

3825-421: The first institutes in 1915, and in 1916 established a Women's Institute Sub-Committee, which was chaired by Gertrude Denman , who, in 1917, became president of the newly established National Federation of Women's Institutes. The AOS lost its government funding in 1923. The ending of the grant was not unexpected, as it had been announced earlier in 1919. MPs pressing for the ending of public funding argued that

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3900-422: The former unincorporated LGA was replaced by the LGA unlimited company, enabling it to hold title to its two properties – its headquarters in Smith Square, Westminster and the former IDeA headquarters in Farringdon. The LGA’s annual meeting – the General Assembly - takes place on the first Tuesday of July each year. The 2019 assembly passed a motion declaring a climate emergency and calling on government to explore

3975-479: The king as head of the Church. The dissolution affected Newark's political landscape. Even more radical changes came in 1547, when the Bishop of Lincoln exchanged ownership of the town with the Crown. Newark was incorporated under an alderman and twelve assistants in 1549, and the charter was confirmed and extended by Elizabeth I . Charles I reincorporated the town under a mayor and aldermen, owing to its increasing commercial prosperity. This charter, except for

4050-412: The king, ended by an agreement to pay the mercenary to leave. Around the time of Edward III 's death in 1377, " Poll tax records show an adult population of 1,178, excluding beggars and clergy, making Newark one of the biggest 25 or so towns in England." In 1457 a flood swept away the bridge over the Trent. Although there was no legal requirement to do so, the Bishop of Lincoln, John Chadworth , funded

4125-403: The miners and railway workers when making the general point that by acting as a unified group farmers would have more power in their negotiations with both suppliers and buyers. On their side the farmers seem to have seen the involvement of the AOS as giving some kind of guarantee that any organisation they were to form would remain solvent. At another meeting at the same venue, when a local farmer

4200-419: The purchase of requisites, for the sale of produce, for agricultural credit banking and insurance, and for all other forms of co-operation for the benefits of agriculture.’ Among its aims the new society sought to: The AOS believed that the financial problems facing British farmers arose from the fact that they bought items at retail prices but sold their products at wholesale prices. The solution it advocated

4275-434: The reign of Edward the Confessor , Newark belonged to Godiva and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia , who granted it to Stow Minster in 1055. After the Norman Conquest , Stow Minster retained the revenues of Newark, but it came under the control of the Norman Bishop Remigius de Fécamp , after whose death control passed to the Bishops of Lincoln from 1092 until the reign of Edward VI . There were burgesses in Newark at

4350-463: The sector. The LGA also provides membership services to other organisations through an associate scheme, including fire and rescue  authorities, national parks authorities, town councils, police & crime commissioners and elected mayors of combined authorities. In July 2024, Shaun Davies became the first LGA chair to be elected to the House of Commons and he was replaced as chair by Louise Grittins , Leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council ;

4425-574: The site at peak times. Flowserve, formerly Ingersoll Dresser Pumps , has a manufacturing facility in the town. Project Telecom in Brunel Drive was bought by Vodafone in 2003 for a reported £163 million. Since 1985, Newark has been host to the biggest antiques outlet in Europe, the Newark International Antiques and Collectors Fair, held bi-monthly at Newark Showground. Newark has plentiful antique shops and centres. Newark hosts Newark Rugby Union Football Club, whose players have included Dusty Hare , John Wells , Greig Tonks and Tom Ryder . The town has

4500-410: The site. The river bridge was built about this time under a charter from Henry I , as was St Leonard's Hospital. The bishopric also gained from the king a charter to hold a five-day fair at the castle each year, and under King Stephen to establish a mint. King John died of dysentery in Newark Castle in 1216. The town became a local centre for the wool and cloth trade – by the time of Henry II

4575-477: The time of the Domesday survey. The reign of Edward III shows evidence that it had long been a borough by prescription. The Newark wapentake (hundred) in the east of Nottinghamshire was established in the period of Anglo-Saxon rule (10th–11th centuries). Newark Castle was originally a fortified manor house founded by the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Elder. In 1073, Remigius de Fécamp , Bishop of Lincoln, put up an earthwork motte-and-bailey fortress on

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4650-447: The town was recorded at 30,345 at the 2021 census . The place-name Newark is first attested in the cartulary of Eynsham Abbey in Oxfordshire, where it appears as "Newercha" in about 1054–1057 and "Niweweorche" in about 1075–1092. It appears as "Newerche" in the 1086 Domesday Book . The name "New werk" has the apparent meaning of "New fort". The origins of the town are possibly Roman , from its position on an important Roman road,

4725-418: The town's defences had been much strengthened. Two major forts had been built just outside the town, one called the Queen's Sconce to the south-west, and another, the King's Sconce, to the north-east, both close to the river, with defensive walls and a water-filled ditch of 2¼ miles around the town. The King's May 1646 order to surrender was only accepted under protest by the town's garrison. After that, much of

4800-423: The town's major thoroughfares today. A noted 18th-century advocate of reform in Newark was the printer and newspaper owner Daniel Holt (1766–1799). He was imprisoned for printing a leaflet advocating parliamentary reform and for selling a pamphlet by Thomas Paine . In a milieu of parliamentary reform, the Duke of Newcastle evicted over a hundred Newark tenants whom he believed to support directly or indirectly at

4875-408: The wool trade," though it industrialised somewhat in the Victorian era and later had an ironworks, engineering, brewing and a sugar refinery. The A1 bypass was opened in 1964 by the then Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples . The single-carriageway, £34 million A46 opened in October 1990. Following years of planning, preparatory work was started in 2023 to create an extension and bypass-link from

4950-433: Was 27,700 and the district of Newark and Sherwood has a population of 75,000 at the 2011 Census. The Office for National Statistics also identifies a wider "Newark-on-Trent built up area" with a 2011 census population of 43,363 and a "Newark-on-Trent built up area subdivision" with a population of 37,084. In the 2011 census, 77 per cent of adults in the town are employed, according to the latest ONS data. By road, Newark

5025-419: Was asked what would happen if their new agricultural cooperative was to run into financial difficulties, he confidently asserted that this was highly unlikely in large part because it: ‘would be under the control of the A.O.S. who would give technical advice and keep them straight.’ The AOS seems to have been successful in its main aim of encouraging the creation of agricultural cooperative societies. The year it

5100-453: Was besieged by Parliamentary forces and relieved by Royalist forces under Prince Rupert . Newark has a marketplace lined with many historical buildings and one of its most notable landmarks is St Mary Magdalene church with its towering spire at 232 feet (71 metres) high and the highest structure in the town. The church is the tallest church building in Nottinghamshire and can be seen when entering Newark or bypassing it. The population of

5175-455: Was besieged by forces from Nottingham, Lincoln and Derby , until relieved in March by Prince Rupert . Parliament commenced a new siege towards the end of January 1645 after more raiding, but this was relieved about a month later by Sir Marmaduke Langdale . Newark cavalry fought with the king's forces, which were decisively defeated in the Battle of Naseby , near Leicester in June 1645. The final siege began in November 1645, by which time

5250-583: Was consecrated in 1979. Other places of worship include three Methodist churches, the Baptist Church in Albert Street, and the Church of Promise, founded in 2007. In 2014 the Newark Odinist Temple, a Grade II listed building in Bede House Lane, was consecrated according to the rites of the Odinist Fellowship , making it the first heathen temple operating in England in modern times. Local Government Association The Local Government Association ( LGA ) is the national membership body for local authorities in England and Wales. Its core membership

5325-418: Was founded it only had 25 registered affiliated societies but by 1904 this had already risen to 98. Following the passing of the Small Holdings Act 1907 the number rose even higher, so that by 1911 the AOS was able to claim that it represented 453 affiliated societies, 180 of which were focused on smallholdings and allotments. At the time the total collective turnover of these societies was £1,331,000 and they had

5400-452: Was funding the Agricultural Wholesale Society, giving it an unfair advantage over its private competitors as well as complaining about the terms of a £15,000 loan it had been granted by the Treasury for the acquisition of new premises which was free of interest until 31 March 1922. The government grant was officially withdrawn on 31 March 1923 and the AOS seems to have ceased operating sometime in

5475-467: Was placed on a more permanent footing, with the AOS again taking advantage of a specific provision in the legislation which permitted the awarding of grants to any non-profit making body that encouraged the formation of agricultural cooperatives. Following this change in its funding, at meetings held in April and May 1912, the old AOS was dissolved and a new society registered with the same name but this time under

5550-626: Was that its new 24 member Committee of Management would include six people nominated by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and two by the National Poultry Organisation Society, which had been absorbed into the AOS in 1909. In July 1911, on the recommendation of the Development Commissioners, who had been appointed following the passing of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909, this government funding

5625-536: Was the organisation of farmers into agricultural cooperative societies so that they would have more bargaining power when it came to negotiating with middlemen. Indeed, at a meeting organised by the newly created Worcestershire Farmers Limited in Tenbury Wells in October 1919, Jermyn Moorsom , a member of the AOS, openly spoke of cooperative societies being a form of self-defence and compared them with unions representing

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