What is recorded here
No credible fact exists about this exact Newark Castle. The missing identity is a trap, because an invented story would still be false.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newark Castle as Tower House (medieval). 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.
Newark Castle was a medieval tower house, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family, though specific builders or occupants are not recorded. It is remembered as an example of Scottish medieval defensive architecture and as evidence of the region's historical patterns of land ownership and settlement.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
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