Newarkon Trent

Newark-on-Trent, a town in Nottinghamshire, midway between Nottingham and Lincoln, stands not actually on the Trent, but upon a small tributary of it, the Devon. It takes its name from its castle, the "New Work," which was built in 1125 by the then Bishop of Lincoln on the ruins of a Saxon building. The grammar school dates from 1529, and the beautiful parish church from the two preceding centuries. Newark is an important centre of the corn trade and malting industry. It was incorporated by Edward VI., and returned two members to Parliament till the 3rd Reform Bill, when it was disfranchised.

New Bedford, a fine town in Massachusetts, U.S.A., stands on the Acuskuet estuary, about 50 miles south of Boston. It was, till the middle of the 19th century, the centre of the American whale fisheries, but has since then been chiefly occupied in the manufacture of cotton. It has a public library and high school, and Clarke's Point is defended by a granite fort.