What is recorded here

Newark Castle rose in 1478 when George Maxwell inherited Finlanstone, creating a tower house inside a walled enclosure on the crowded Clyde shore. It became a stage for Maxwell pride, Maxwell violence and Maxwell change, including Sir Patrick’s late sixteenth-century mansion and the later birth of Port Glasgow. Shipbuilders eventually filled the land around it, but the castle still stands beside the last remaining lower Clyde yard, watching water that once carried bears, bears for show, bears for trade and men for every kind of purpose.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newark Castle as Pier (20th Century), Slipway (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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