Photo of the River Trent, a 95-mile river navigation running from Shardlow to Trent Falls, central England.

River Trent© Philip Halling / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Places to explore near Newark North Gate StationNewark

13 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group.

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River Trent

River navigation

The powerhouse river of the Midlands, navigable from Shardlow through Nottingham and Newark to the tidal reaches at Gainsborough.

0.5 km NW · Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Derbyshire

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Newark-on-Trent

Village

Handsome Trent market town below its ruined castle, a cobbled square of Georgian inns and a spire among the finest in England.

0.8 km SW · Nottinghamshire

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Caunton Beck

Pub near Caunton

Beck-side inn near Newark built around a 16th-century timber cottage, open long hours for food.

8.1 km NW

The Full Moon Inn

Pub near Morton

Country inn at Morton near Southwell, a garden pub in the Trent-side fields.

8.5 km W

The Workhouse, Southwell

Ancient site near Southwell

England's best-preserved Victorian workhouse, kept much as the poor of the 1800s would have known it, near Southwell

9.3 km W

Robin Hood Way

Long-distance path

Nottingham Castle to Edwinstowe church through Sherwood Forest — the outlaw's county end to end.

9.4 km W · Nottinghamshire

Everything else within 10 km (7) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Friary Garden Civil War defencesFriaryaccess unclear0.5 km SW
St Mary Magdalene, NewarkChurch0.8 km SW
Newark Castle (Nottinghamshire)Castleaccess unclear1 km SW
Crococalana Roman townRoman archaeological siteaccess unclear5 km NE
Battle of Stoke (Field)Battlefield8.3 km SW
Mather WoodSSSIaccess unclear9.2 km NW
Besthorpe MeadowsSSSIaccess unclear9.6 km N

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.