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Extract of the Ordnance Survey 1:500 map of Castle Gate (1885). |
Cartographic
Printed
- An exact Platform of all the redoubts, forts and fortifications, which were about the town of Newark upon Trent… when it was unhappily besieged the 6 day of March 1644/5 by the … Scotch aramy, and the form of all the entrenchments, batteries and approaches raised and carried on by them against it, till it was surrendered on the 8th May, 1646. “Taken by their Chief Enginier during that transaction from whose drawing this is correctly copied and has been compared with the remains of the said place by Sam[uel] Buck. June 1725. R Clampe delin. 1646. S. Buck, sculp 1726. [Nottinghamshire Archives Ne 2 S
- John Wood, A Plan of Newark from Actual Survey (1829) [Nottinghamshire Archives Ne 13S]
Large scale Ordnance Survey maps (at scales of 1:2500 and 1:500) from the late 19th and early 20th centuries show the town and its features in great detail. Alan Godfrey Maps have published reduced copies of Ordnance Survey 25” to 1 mile maps (second edition) dating from c.1900:
- Alan Godfrey Maps, Old Ordnance Survey maps: Newark 1900, 1998
- Alan Godfrey Maps, Old Ordnance Survey maps: Newark East 1899, 1999
Manuscript
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Extract from the map of the civil war siege works at Newark now in the possession of Newark Museum. It was probably drawn by a Royalist engineer. |
Manuscript maps of the 17th century Civil War siege works have survived:
- The siege of Newark by the English and Scotch armies consisting of sixteen thousand men which continued twenty and six weeks, and was surrendered the eight of May 1646, by his Maties Commander to the Committee of both Kingdomes for the Parliament. [Newark Museum (41-35)]
- A description of the seidge of Newark upon Trent with the fortifications about the Towne as also the forme of all the Entrenchments forts redouts batteries and approaches made against it under the conduct of the Earle of Leven Capt: Genll: of the Scots Army and Coll: Genll: Pointz and Coll: Rosseter commanders in Cheife of the English forces, it begun the 6th of March 1645 and ended the 8th of May 1646. Described by Richard Clampe, Ingenier. [British Library (maps) 4670 (i)]
The earliest detailed map of Newark is that showing land holdings, produced for the Duke of Newcastle in 1790:
- A map of the Town of Newark in the County of Nottingham from a survey taken in 1790 by W. Attenburrow, land surveyor [Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/1440/102/R]
Other manuscript maps:
- Manuscript map of land in Newark, Balderton and Farndon, Nottinghamshire, belonging to Henry [9th] Earl of Lincoln [later 2nd Duke of Newcastle under Lyne], 1762 [Nottingham University, Manuscripts and Special Collections: Ne 5 P 34]
- A map of certain parcels of crown lands within the manor of Newark … in lease to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle and others from a survey made in the year 1788 with a sketch of the town of Newark [National Archives MR 1/275]
- A map of the lands set out and allotted, in the parish of Newark, by virtue of an act passed in the year 1800 [Nottinghamshire Archives Map cabinet (EA) copy; Newark Town Council (N)]
- A map of the estate of Sir Jenison William Gordon in the parish of Newark … 1803 [Newark Museum 265-1]
- Plan of the houses and grounds belonging to the Crown within the town of Newark … taken by order of John Fordyce Esq. Surveyor General of His Majesty’s Land Revenue by Thomas Chawner. 1804 [National Archives MR 1/1132]
- Map of the Borough of Newark, Nottinghamshire, 20 November 1838 [Nottingham University, Manuscripts and Special Collections: Ne 6 P 3/15/7]
- Tithe map of the parish of Newark, 1845 [Nottingham University, Manuscripts and Special Collections: Ne 6 P3/15/9]