Newark On Trent, Cemetery Avenue 1904
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There exists at least one account that states that the plague reached Newark in the summer of 1665, said to have been brought to the town in contaminated patterns of woollen cloths delivered to a draper in the market place. Burials were forbidden within the town, and a plague pit was opened at the southern end of Millgate near the bridge over the Devon. Writing in 1879, Cornelius Brown said that he could find no evidence to support the plague story; church records showed no unusual increase in the number of recorded deaths, and that the inhabitants of Newark were in fact sending financial aid to infected areas.
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