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Extract from the Newark Travel Guides:
From Southwell, it's eight miles east to
NEWARK
, an amiable, low-key river port and market town that was once a major staging point on the Great North Road. Fronting the town as you approach from the west are the gaunt riverside ruins of
Newark Castle
(daily dawn to dusk; free), all that's left of the mighty medieval fortress that was pounded to pieces during the Civil War. From here, it's just a couple of minutes' walk east to the expansive
Market Place
, surrounded by a network of narrow and ancient alleys and overlooked by the mostly thirteenth-century church of
St Mary Magdalene
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read the whole Newark Travel Guides...
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