Newark

Meanings

1. Any of several places:
2. A civil parish and town with a town council in Nottinghamshire, England.
3. A suburb of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, formerly a hamlet in the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin in the Soke of Peterborough (OS grid ref TF2100).
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. A small city in Independence County, Arkansas.
6. A city in Alameda County, California.
7. A city in New Castle County, Delaware.
8. A village in Kendall County, Illinois.
9. An unincorporated community in Beech Creek Township, Greene County, Indiana.
10. A census-designated place in Worcester County, Maryland.
11. A village in Knox County, Missouri.
12. An unincorporated community in Kearney County, Nebraska.

Etymology

Probably from Old English nīewe (“new”) + weorc (“work”). In this case, a perhaps more accurate sense of "work" would be that of a building, as an example of a work of labor. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Newerche.