Horse Troughs

Photo:Horse Trough on Beastmarket Hill, Newark (with Newark Castle behind). This trough is likely to have been erected in c.1882 when the adjacent Ossington Coffee Palace (temperance hotel) was built.

Horse Trough on Beastmarket Hill, Newark (with Newark Castle behind). This trough is likely to have been erected in c.1882 when the adjacent Ossington Coffee Palace (temperance hotel) was built.

Note the smaller 'trough' underneath at ground level for use by dogs and smaller animals - sheep, pigs - being driven to Newark's livestock market nearby. (Picture taken October 2013)

This page was added by Jonathan Steel on 07/10/2013.

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