89-523: The A616 is a road that links Newark-on-Trent , Nottinghamshire , to the M1 motorway at Junction 30, then reappears at Junction 35A and goes on to Huddersfield , West Yorkshire . The road originally ran continuously from Newark to Huddersfield, via Sheffield city centre. The section of route between the M1 Junction 30 and Sheffield was re-numbered A6135, and the route north-west of Sheffield largely renumbered
178-541: 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
267-530: 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
356-462: A centre for the wool and cloth trades. In the English Civil War , it 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
445-657: 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
534-885: 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
623-565: 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 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
712-519: 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
801-544: 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 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
890-707: 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
979-517: 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 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
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#17328528353321068-460: 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
1157-511: A mountain biking, cyclo cross and forest walks centre, a forest fun park, and an outdoor adventure park. Environmental concerns are addressed under the Maun Valley Project Conservation Area. Edwinstowe railway station functioned between 1897 and 1955. A goods line remains. The nearest passenger railway stations are at Mansfield Woodhouse and Mansfield , both about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Edwinstowe. The village
1246-557: 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
1335-458: A roundabout for Warren and a business park. To the north is Tankersley Hall , which featured in the film Kes . At this point it is the boundary between the boroughs of Sheffield (to the south), and Barnsley (to the north), with the road in the borough of Barnsley. To the right is a turn off for Tankersley Park golf club. It skirts the north of New Biggin Plantation and Westwood Country Park , and
1424-530: A straightened bend with a layby on the right, and then through Kneesall, passing the church of St Bartholomew and the Angel Inn. It is crossed by a 400 kV pylon line and passes through the small village of Ompton . It climbs Grimston Hill, entering the parish of Wellow . It passes through Wellow, meeting a road from the left from Eakring , and passing the Durham Ox. There is an angled crossroads for Rufford (and
1513-618: 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
1602-457: 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
1691-649: Is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire , England. It 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
1780-508: Is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire , England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries . It is associated with the legends of Robin Hood and Maid Marian , and to a lesser extent Edwin of Northumbria , from where the village gets its name. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 5,188. A 2019 estimate put it at 5,261, and
1869-582: Is a right turn for Norton and the road meets the north–south A60 at Cuckney , where the A632 leaves for Bolsover to the south-west. In the village the road passes the Greendale Oak. It leaves to the west as Creswell Road, crossing the River Poulter . It passes Woodend Farm and there is a crossroads for Whaley and Holbeck . The road enters Derbyshire and the district of Bolsover , south of Creswell. Entering
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#17328528353321958-792: Is crossed by the Barnsley Boundary Walk , and the Trans Pennine Trail . At Upper Tankersley there is a busy roundabout with Westwood New Road ( A61 ) at the Shell Wentworth Park Service Station, and to the north is the Wentworth Industrial Park. There is a Premier Inn on the right, next door to one of Britain's seven Taybarns pubs. From here the Sheffield-Barnsley boundary follows the A61 southwards to
2047-687: Is crossed by the Kirklees Way . It crosses the A635 at New Mill . It passes through Thongsbridge and meets the Holme Valley at Brockholes as New Mill Road, and passes Brockholes railway station , and the Esso Midlothian Garage and the JET Johnsted Garage. There is a crossroads, with the left turn for Honley and the right turn for Honley railway station and Honley High School . It meets
2136-609: Is disputed. Like Thoresby, Budby and Mansfield, Edwinstowe belonged to King Edward the Confessor and afterwards became the property of King William the Conqueror . Edwinstowe is referred to twice in Domesday Book as having five households, in addition to a priest and his four bordars , in 1086. Legend has it that Robin Hood married Maid Marian in St Mary's Church . Edwinstowe
2225-486: 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
2314-526: Is known for the presence near the village of the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest , a feature in the folk tales of Robin Hood, and Robin Hood's Larder . By the turn of the 20th century Edwinstowe consisted of a cluster of houses along Town Street, East Lane, Church Street and High Street. A hamlet called Hazel Grove was bordered by Mill Lane and the railway line and a cluster of houses at the top of Rufford Road
2403-604: Is located near the village and was redeveloped and improved in 2017 at a cost of £5.3 million. This centre is operated in partnership by the Council and the RSPB . Center Parcs' Sherwood Forest holiday village is a local employer established in 1987, close to the edge of the village. Sherwood Pines Forest Park is set within Sherwood Forest near to Old Clipstone and has activity walking/cycling trails, play areas and bike hire for
2492-504: Is not adequate for the quantity of traffic it carries, and would have been originally designed as a dual-carriageway as it is a well-engineered road. It passes Wellhouse Farm and is crossed by Pearoyd Lane, where it overlooks the former steelworks to the south. It passes Cote House Farm, and meets the former route, the B6088, from the left which is the western end of the Stocksbridge bypass, and
2581-1002: Is now the Trans Pennine Trail. From Langsett to the TPT bridge, the A616 is the boundary of the Peak District National Park . It crosses the River Don, and there are crossroads with the B6106. At Crow Edge , it passes the Hepworth pipe works, now owned by Wavin (a Dutch company), and the Prince of Wales Hotel on the right. At Victoria there are crossroads at the Victoria Inn, where the road enters Kirklees , and West Yorkshire . The road becomes more twisty, and passes through Hepworth and Scholes , where it
2670-577: Is on the former roundabout with the A619. It leaves the former route to the left at a roundabout, and there is a roundabout for the Dobbies garden centre and Barlborough Links Golf Club, and another for the Barlborough Links retail park and a large Tesco distribution centre on Barlborough Common. There is a roundabout with the earlier route around Barlborough, where it meets the east-west A619. At this roundabout
2759-625: Is the Ibis Chesterfield North hotel and the Treble Bob pub-restaurant. Continuing the earlier diversion around Barlborough, built at the time of the M1 in 1967, it meets the M1 at junction 30, where it continues into Sheffield as the A6135 . The route was renumbered when junction 35A of the M1 was built. The northern section resumes at the end of the slip roads of junction 35A of the M1 at Tankersley , at
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2848-551: Is the tallest church building in Nottinghamshire and can be seen when entering Newark or bypassing it. The population of 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
2937-712: 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
3026-522: 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
3115-571: 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 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
3204-617: The River Meden to the west of Thoresby Lake. At Budby North Forest the A6034 leaves to the right (the north), and slightly further north is a crossroads with Netherfield Lane. At Hazel Gap the road continues due west and is crossed by the Robin Hood Way near Hazel Gap Farm in the parish of Norton . The road enters Bassetlaw and passes along the northern edge of Gleadthorpe Breck Plantation and Hatfield Plantation, north of Welbeck Colliery . There
3293-418: The River Trent . At South Muskham the road leaves to the west with the northern former A1 continuing as the B6325. It passes through Little Carlton, part of South Muskham parish. It climbs Debdale Hill and meets a road from Kelham , to the left. It passes Debdale Hill Farm as Ollerton Road. Over the brow of the hill, it enters Caunton parish, where the road has been straightened, leaving lay-bys on both sides of
3382-404: 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),
3471-413: The dissolution of the monasteries , Henry VIII had the Vicar of Newark, Henry Lytherland, executed for refusing to acknowledge 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
3560-441: 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
3649-472: The (former mining) village of Creswell it meets the B6042 to the right, for Creswell Crags , a limestone gorge. There is a left turn for Elmton Road, for the model village . There is a height indicator across the road with dangling chains for the approaching railway bridge which has a height of 4.1 metres. Towards Clowne the road follows to the north of a disused railway, and passes the Creswell Campus of Chesterfield College , before crossroads, for Elmton to
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3738-495: 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
3827-417: The A1 through Newark became the A6065, and the former A616 became an unclassified road from Toll Bar Farm to Kelham, and the A617 from Kelham to Newark. The A616 then followed a former unclassified road to South Muskham, where it met the A6065. When the Newark Bypass was built in 1989, the A6065 was removed and the A616 extended from South Muskham to Newark along the former A6065. The former A1 into Newark from
3916-419: 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
4005-430: The A6024 from the left and as Huddersfield Road passes the Texaco Alpine Service Station, then becomes Woodhead Road. Entering Huddersfield, there is a crossroads with the left for Armitage Road (B6110 for Meltham ) and the right for Berry Brow and its railway station. It passes under the Penistone Line and becomes Bridge Street, where it crosses the River Holme, meeting Meltham Road (B6108). As Lockwood Road it passes
4094-444: The A6075 to the south-west for Thoresby Colliery and Edwinstowe , at which there is the Shell Ollerton garage, a fish and chip restaurant, and the Texaco Ollerton Star Service Station. It passes through what is Sherwood Forest at Bilhaugh in Edwinstowe parish, and meets Swincote Road (B6034) to the left, from Edwinstowe, and overlaps with the road. In Perlethorpe cum Budby , it passes through Budby as Worksop Road and crosses
4183-420: The A6102. Similar to the A57 , this section of the road is used to connect traffic heading to and from West and South Yorkshire with routes for the A1 to the south-east. The advantages of the A616 are that it is less well known than the A57 as a through-route and does not pass through large centres of population. It starts in the south at the busy roundabout with the A617 and A46 (Newark bypass), known as
4272-407: The A629 junction. It crosses the Storrs Dike near Bromley . It skirts the south of Copley Wood, and at Wortley meets the A629 at a grade separated junction – one of two junctions of this type along the road. Woodhead Road, for Wadsley Bridge , also joins from the south. Near Gosling Moor Farm, it is crossed by the Trans Pennine Trail and a former railway. It crosses the River Don where it enters
4361-419: 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
4450-399: The Bishops of Lincoln from 1092 until the reign of Edward VI . There were burgesses in Newark at 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
4539-403: The Cattle Market Island. This is the third position of its southern terminus. When the A1 ran through Newark, before July 1964, it met the A1 further towards Newark Castle railway station , by continuing from its present route down Debdale Hill then through Kelham , where it met the A617, and along the present-day A617 near what is the present-day Trent Valley Way . After the A1 bypass was built,
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#17328528353324628-426: The Fosse Way and the River Trent. There cremated remains were buried in pottery urns. In 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
4717-418: 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
4806-451: 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
4895-425: 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
4984-422: The Sherwood Castle Holiday Forest) to the left and New Ollerton to the right, and the road passes of a former railway. It enters Ollerton, crossing a railway. There is a roundabout with the A6075, to the left for New Ollerton, with which the road overlaps for a half-mile to the west. The B6461 is to the left, and the road crosses the River Maun . There is a roundabout at Sherwood Heath with the north-south A614 and
5073-501: The Stocksbridge Bypass, including reputed apparitions of a monk and phantom children during the road's construction. These claims were featured in a 1994 episode of the paranormal documentary series Strange but True? , hosted by Michael Aspel . Download coordinates as: 53°16′57″N 1°17′05″W / 53.2825°N 1.2847°W / 53.2825; -1.2847 ( A616 road ) Newark-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent ( / ˌ nj uː ər k -/ ) or Newark
5162-400: The Yorkshire Victoria', and meets St Thomas Road (B6432) then as Folly Hall crosses the River Colne , and meets Colne Road (B6432) from the right. As Chapel Hill it meets Manchester Road (A62) from the left, where it terminates on the A62 Huddersfield ring road. The bypass was opened in May 1988 and is a road that links the M1 motorway at Junction 35A (and J36) to the Woodhead Pass (one of
5251-483: 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
5340-437: The apparent meaning of "New fort". The origins of the town are possibly Roman , from its position on an important Roman road, 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
5429-403: 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
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#17328528353325518-400: The borough of Sheffield. There is a grade-separated junction with the A6102, for Sheffield and the former route, which is the eastern end of the Stocksbridge bypass. The former route through Stocksbridge is the B6088. It passes along the northern edge of Stocksbridge on an escarpment overlooking the town. A 400 kV pylon line follows the road. The road, a downgraded M67, is a 2+1 road . This
5607-409: The bypass. Reports have suggested the road may appear to be safe at speeds above the 60 limit despite not being so. The speed limit on the A616 is enforced using a digital speed camera system called SPECS , which calculates the average speed of a vehicle over the distance travelled between two cameras using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology. After the installation of the cameras,
5696-446: 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 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
5785-410: 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
5874-402: 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
5963-416: The development proved controversial with concerns over noise and anti-social behaviour. The village has a business services provider, a St John's Ambulance amenity, an antiques centre, workshops, a fun park, a youth hostel, two arts and crafts centres, a village hall, and a community pest-control centre. Leisure facilities include Thoresby Colliery Band and Youth Band, a high-wire forest adventure course,
6052-436: The end of the upgraded section from the M1. At this point the road re-enters the borough of Barnsley, and the Sheffield-Barnsley boundary follows the southern edge of the road all the way to Langsett. Underbank Reservoir is to the south, and Sheephouse Wood is to the north, with the entrance to Fox Wire on the right. At Midhopestones there is a crossroads, with the left turn for the Ye Olde Mustard Pot pub. The road follows
6141-484: 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
6230-427: The general public. Sherwood Pines is managed by the Forestry Commission. A Go Ape adventure area is on-site too. There was a post windmill south of the Mansfield Road with a small box-style roundhouse. It was driven by two common and two double-patent windmill sails . Thoresby Colliery served as Edwinstowe's main source of employment until July 2015, when the mine was permanently closed. The loss of one of
6319-490: The last remaining deep coal mines in the country has left tourism as the main factor in the local economy. The colliery has now become a large housing development for 800 homes, to make use of the now brownfield site. The two schools in the village are St Mary's Primary School and King Edwin Primary School. The former Rufford School on the north side of the village closed in 2003 and has become residential housing by Barratt Developments , known as Friars Park. A skate park on
6408-637: The left. Entering Clowne there is a crossroads where it is crossed by the Archaeological Way . It passes the JET Woodall Garage, and meets the B6418 from the left and the terminus of the A618, Rotherham Road for Killamarsh , to the right. It leaves as Barlborough Road, passing through New Barlsborough. The road used to pass through Barlborough , but now passes to the south. The Crown Carveries De Rodes Arms
6497-648: The main trans- Pennine roads from Sheffield to Manchester ) bypassing the towns of Stocksbridge and Deepcar . It has been said that the Stocksbridge bypass was originally planned to be part of the M67 motorway . The road is notorious for having many accidents and has been labelled a ' blackspot '. While the South Yorkshire police question the statement and say the road is no more dangerous than any other road of its type in Britain, judges sentencing traffic accidents have declared
6586-598: The north, the road is untrunked all the way to Huddersfield, and passes the Flouch Hotel next to the former mini-roundabout with the A628. It continues as the straight Whams Road across Thurlstone Moors, passing through Hazlehead, in Dunford, where it is crossed by the former Woodhead Line, next to the former Hazlehead Bridge railway station . The Woodhead Tunnel begins around two miles to the west at Dunford Bridge . The Woodhead Line
6675-533: The proportion of people driving above the speed limit on the road dropped from 45% to 4% and only one person died between their installation in 2002 and 2005. This is compared with almost two a year before they were installed. This set of speed cameras is thought by locals not to be in current use, but nonetheless acts as a strong deterrent against speeding. Parts of the road have a double white line but at least two vehicles have been known to cross these leading to fatal crashes. There are several ghost stories attached to
6764-429: The road to have been built "on the cheap" and the mayor of Stocksbridge at the time of its construction declared it to be "fearfully dangerous". During the road's construction it was downgraded from a dual carriageway with crash barrier to a single carriage way with a passing lane. Since its completion there has been a 46,000-name petition demanding it be upgraded to dual carriageway. There are frequent head-on collisions on
6853-449: The road. It passes Dean Hall Farm and there is a crossroads for Knapthorpe to the left and Caunton to the right. There is a left turn for Maplebeck near Beesthorpe Hall, and a right turn from Caunton. It passes Lodge Farm and Caunton Common Farm. On the parish boundary between Kneesall and Kersall , there is a crossroads for Kersall to the left and Laxton and Norwell to the right, near Kersall Lodge. It passes Buckshaw Farm, then
6942-515: The roundabout is the B6326. For just under two miles it follows the former A1 north to South Muskham , passing a large British Sugar sugar beet processing plant on the right. This is now one of the main sugar beet factories left, as many in the region have closed. It runs parallel to the East Coast Main Line , which can be seen to the east. On the former Great North Road, it passes over a causeway built in 1770 by John Smeaton . At Muskham Bridge it crosses
7031-750: 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
7120-512: 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
7209-470: 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
7298-762: The valley of the Little Don River , where it is followed by the Barnsley Boundary Walk. At Langsett there is a left turn for Upper Midhope , and a right turn, and passes the Bank View Cafe. To the south is Langsett Reservoir and the road skirts the eastern edge of Crookland Wood. It meets the A628 at the Flouch Roundabout. Traffic for Manchester from the M1 follows the A628 to the west – the Woodhead Pass . To
7387-510: 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
7476-433: 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
7565-469: Was 5,320 at the 2021 census . The etymology of the village name, "Edwin's resting place", recalls that the body of Edwin of Northumbria , King and Saint, was hidden in the church after he was killed in the Battle of Hatfield Chase . The battle against King Penda of Mercia is thought to have occurred near the present-day hamlet of Cuckney , some five miles north-west of modern Edwinstowe, though this location
7654-448: Was another hamlet called Lidgett. Lidgett was the site of a fireworks factory owned by F. Tudsbury and Co. before George Pinder, a local wine, spirit and porter merchant who resided at Lidgett House, took over ownership by 1886. These settlements eventually merged as the result of infills from World War I, much of it housing for colliers and named after the largest area. Nottinghamshire County Council's Sherwood Forest Visitors' Centre
7743-601: 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
7832-471: 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
7921-776: 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. Edwinstowe Edwinstowe
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