Editing Newark-on-Trent (section)

===Georgian era and early 19th century===
[[File:Newark Castle and bridge London Published by J Deeley, 95 Bewick St Soho, 1812 Coloured aquatint.jpg|thumb|[[Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire|Newark Castle]] {{circa|1812}}]]
[[File:Town Hall, Newark-on-Trent (geograph 3654724).jpg|thumb|[[Newark Town Hall]], completed in 1776]]
About 1770 the [[Great North Road (Great Britain)|Great North Road]] around Newark (now the A616) was raised on a long series of arches to ensure it remained clear of the regular floods. A special [[Act of Parliament]] in 1773 allowed the creation of a town hall next to the Market Place. Designed by [[John Carr (architect)|John Carr of York]] and completed in 1776, [[Newark Town Hall]] is now a Grade I listed building, housing a museum and art gallery. In 1775 the [[Duke of Newcastle]], at the time the Lord of the Manor and a major landowner in the area, built a new brick bridge with stone facing to replace a dilapidated one next to the Castle. This is still one of the town's major thoroughfares today.

A noted 18th-century advocate of reform in Newark was the printer and newspaper owner Daniel Holt (1766–1799). He was imprisoned for printing a leaflet advocating parliamentary reform and for selling a pamphlet by [[Thomas Paine]].<ref>An account of Holt's life by Alan Dorling appears in the ''Nottinghamshire Historian'' journal, spring/summer 2000, pp. 9–15, with further detail in autumn/winter 2003, pp. 8–12.</ref>

In a milieu of parliamentary reform, the Duke of Newcastle evicted over a hundred Newark tenants whom he believed to support directly or indirectly at the 1829 elections the Liberal/Radical candidate (Wilde), rather than his candidate, (Michael Sadler, a progressive Conservative).<ref>See the report in Cornelius Brown 1907, ii, 243 ff.; and the report in ''The Times'' for 7 October 1829. A report in ''The Times'' of 10 September 1832 lists ten of the evicted by name and address.</ref>

J. S. Baxter, a schoolboy in Newark in 1830–1840, contributed to ''The Hungry Forties: Life under the Bread Tax'' (London, 1904), a book about the [[Corn Laws]]: "Chartists and rioters came from Nottingham into Newark, parading the streets with penny loaves dripped in blood carried on pikes, crying 'Bread or blood'."