Newark By Heart: Siege Silver, Castle Secrets & Honest Notes from the Town Everyone Drives Past
Most people only know Newark as a queue on the A46.
A castle wall out the side window. A spire over the rooftops. The Cattle Market roundabout. Then you're through and gone.
This book is for the people who stopped. Or never left. Or left years ago and still read every post in the town groups.
It's written by a Skeg lad who spent twenty-odd years going through Newark without ever stopping, until his wife's nan Pat put her coat on one Sunday and walked him round. She's lived here most of her life, she checked every chapter, and she has an opinion on all of it.
Chapter three: King John's last night in Newark, and where to stand today.
What's inside
The castle, properly. King John's last night in October 1216, what the peaches story is and isn't, and the dungeons that are finally reopening. When the underground tours open, you get the updated chapter free.
The siege town. Three sieges, silver cups cut into coins, and a self-guided walk to the Queen's Sconce and the old siege lines most people drive straight past.
Saturday, done right. Where to park, when the Market Place is at its best, the Buttermarket and the Town Hall, and the cobbles in the rain.
Living with the A46. Honest timing for the Cattle Market roundabout and how locals plan their week round it.
Thinking of moving here? Northgate or Castle station, the train into King's Cross, the town centre flats, Balderton, Fernwood, Farndon and the villages, and an honest chapter on the Trent and flooding before you sign anything.
Pat's Newark. The outdoor pool, what's gone, what's coming back, and why she says everything good is either just closed or about to open.
The spot. Castle, river and spire in one frame, at the right time, with nobody else about. Exact directions in the final chapter.
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Newark has been the bit of the A46 everyone sits through for long enough. Stop here.