A campaign calling for the A612 to be downgraded from an A to a B road in a bid to deter lorries and end some of the Southwell’s traffic problems has been relaunched.
Plans to improve access to one of Southwell’s most historic buildings as part of a £1m project have been submitted to Newark and Sherwood District Council.
NEARLY 130 years ago Victorian philanthropist Sir William Gilstrap gave Newark its first free public library — the Gilstrap Centre. It has been in public use ever since.
For many years it was what Sir William had intended, a public library.
Today, it is used for the Castle And Conflict exhibition, temporary exhibition space for various groups, it is home to the Romanesque arch that was believed to have once stood at the entrance to the castle chapel, and as Newark’s tourist information centre.
Standing at the edge of the castle grounds, it is the ideal spot for the tourist information as the natural point to which most tourists gravitate.