The town of Newark has been an important place since medieval times,
when it became a major centre for wool and cloth production. The town
grew around its once-impressive castle, built in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries but later destroyed in 1646 following the town's
surrender to attacking Parliamentary forces during the Civil War. The
town expanded and developed again in Victorian times, and a number of
new industries were established, among them sugar refining, which is
still in evidence today. In Lost Newark local authors Jillian Campbell
and Mike Cox step back in time and rediscover Newark's lost buildings
and remember the forgotten architectural heritage that once embellished
this attractive East Midlands market town.