Newark-Upon-Trent
a town of Nottinghamshire, England, on a branch of the Trent; 18 miles N. E. of Nottingham and 120 N. by W. of London. It has a fine parish church, built mainly between 1350 and 1480. Newark has an important corn market and great malting industries, besides iron and brass foundries, manufactures of boilers and agricultural implements and plaster of paris works. A British town and Roman station, Newark in Saxon times became the seat of a castle, which was rebuilt in 1125 by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln (hence the name New Wark), and which long bore the name of the "key of the North." King John died in it (1216); and in the Great Rebellion it stood three sieges. In 1646 it was dismantled, and is now represented only by a picturesque ruin. Pop. about 17,- 500.