Description

SK7954SE
619-1/5/380
12/03/91

NEWARK ON TRENT
GREAT NORTH ROAD
(South West side) walling 50m NW of Trent Bridge

GV
II

Causeway arches and embankment walling with gates. 1770 with
mid C19 alterations. Designed by John Smeaton. Red brick with
ashlar dressings. Walling runs for 80metres along the
south-west side of the Great North Road, with buttresses at
regular intervals. To the south-east a 30 metre section of
wall slightly curved, with ashlar coping. Then a mid C19
gateway, inserted as an entrance to the cattle market, with
square brick piers with blue brick and ashlar decoration, and
a pair of iron gates. Beyond to the north-west 40 metres of
walling with 9 segmental brick arches (2 not visible), stretching
under the road to the north-east, with buttresses between.
The corresponding north wall of this causeway and embankment
walling was demolished when the road was widened in the C19.
Part of a causeway carrying the Great North Road across the
flood plain of the Trent.

Listing NGR: SK7957254186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26522586

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