'Desk-based archaeological assessment of land at 3 Watermill Yard, Millgate, Newark-on- Trent, Nottinghamshire (National Grid Reference SK 7937 5359) has determined that the study area may contain significant archaeological remains. Suburban settlement developed along Millgate from about the 13th century and buried archaeological remains of medieval and post-medieval date are likely to survive, possibly including the remains of buildings along the street frontage. In the late 18th century the White Horse Inn occupied the Millgate frontage with a malthouse and various cottages in White Horse Yard to the rear of this. The study area also encompasses another row of 18th century cottages, which fronted onto Watermill Yard; remains of all of these buildings are likely to survive. There is lesser potential for archaeological remains of earlier periods but the possibility of settlement and/or burial evidence of Roman and early Anglo-Saxon date cannot be discounted; nor can evidence of Civil War period defences and possibly inhumation burials.'