Newmarket racecourse straddles the border of Suffolk and which other county?
"county of Cambridgeshire. Historically, there are various names that have been given to courses or parts of courses at Newmarket, and some are still in use today to describe particular race distances. Whyte's History of the British Turf (1840), for instance, lists the Beacon Course, Round Course, Audley End Course, Clermont Course, Ancaster Mile, Rowley Mile, Abingdon Mile, Banbury Mile, Ditch Mile and Yearling Course. The King's Plate (or Queen's Plate) was a major race run between 1634 and 1765. (Location of Carpark) Newmarket Racecourse Newmarket Racecourse, is a British Thoroughbred horse racing venue in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk,"
"Newmarket, Suffolk Newmarket is a market town in the English county of Suffolk, approximately 65 miles (105 kilometres) north of London. It is generally considered the birthplace and global centre of thoroughbred horse racing and a potential World Heritage Site. It is a major local business cluster, with annual investment rivalling that of the Cambridge Science Park, the other major cluster in the region. It is the largest racehorse training centre in Britain, the largest racehorse breeding centre in the country, home to most major British horseracing institutions, and a key global centre for horse health. Two Classic races, and"
"Marco Botti. Many wealthy owners of racing stables and studs have also lived in Newmarket, including David Robinson, David Thompson and Rachel Parsons. Newmarket is the birthplace of the following people. Newmarket, Suffolk Newmarket is a market town in the English county of Suffolk, approximately 65 miles (105 kilometres) north of London. It is generally considered the birthplace and global centre of thoroughbred horse racing and a potential World Heritage Site. It is a major local business cluster, with annual investment rivalling that of the Cambridge Science Park, the other major cluster in the region. It is the largest racehorse"
"metal group, Cradle of Filth, singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, and coloratura soprano Christina Johnston. Hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood is originally from Suffolk and the influential DJ and radio presenter John Peel made the county his home. Contemporary painter, Maggi Hambling, was born, and resides, in Suffolk. Suffolk's contributions to sport include Formula One magnate Bernie Ecclestone and former England footballers Terry Butcher, Kieron Dyer and Matthew Upson. Due to Newmarket being the centre of British horse racing many jockeys have settled in the county, including Lester Piggott and Frankie Dettori. Significant ecclesiastical figures from Suffolk include Simon Sudbury, a former Archbishop"
"Newmarket Racecourse Newmarket Racecourse, is a British Thoroughbred horse racing venue in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk, comprising two individual racecourses, the Rowley Mile and the July Course. Newmarket is often referred to as the headquarters of British horseracing and is home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country and many key horse racing organisations, including Tattersalls, the National Horseracing Museum and the National Stud. Newmarket hosts two of the country's five Classic Races - the 1,000 Guineas and 2,000 Guineas, and numerous other Group races. In total, it hosts 9 of British racing's 36 annual Group"
"Suffolk is a county in East Anglia. It is bounded by Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west, Essex to the south and the North Sea to the east. With an area of , it is the eighth largest county in England, and in mid-2016 the population was 745,000. The top level of local government is Suffolk County Council, and below it are seven borough and district councils: Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney. Much of the coast consists of the estuaries of the Orwell, Stour, Alde, Deben and Blyth rivers, with large"
"tier of English football. The town of Newmarket is the headquarters of British horseracing – home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country and many key horse racing organisations including the National Stud, and Newmarket Racecourse. Tattersalls bloodstock auctioneers and the National Horseracing Museum are also in the town. Point to point racing takes place at Higham and Ampton. Speedway racing has been staged in Suffolk since at least the 1950s, following the construction of the Foxhall Stadium, just outside Ipswich, home of the Ipswich Witches. The Witches are currently members of the Premier League, the UK's"
"Save Historic Newmarket Save Historic Newmarket is grassroots organisation based in Newmarket, Suffolk, with the stated aim of preserving the town as the global centre of the horseracing industry and the many thousands of jobs it provides, and as a potential World Heritage Site. It came to national attention as one of many groups opposed to the Hatchfield stud farm development. Newmarket is generally regarded as the global centre of thoroughbred horse racing. It is one of two major business clusters in its region, the other being the Cambridge Science Park. The horse racing and breeding businesses provide over 8,500"
"and it is estimated that one in every three local jobs is related to horse racing. Palace House, the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art, the National Horseracing Museum, Tattersalls racehorse auctioneers, and two of the world's foremost equine hospitals for horse health, are in the town, which is surrounded by over sixty horse breeding studs. On account of its leading position in the multibillion-pound horse racing and breeding industry, it is also a major export centre. The area of Suffolk containing Newmarket is nearly an exclave, with only a narrow strip of territory linking it to the"
"Snailwell Snailwell is a small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England around north of Newmarket. The parish of Snailwell covers an area of in the extension of eastern Cambridgeshire that surrounds the town of Newmarket in Suffolk. The western and southern boundaries also form the border between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, with the southern boundary following the line of the ancient Icknield Way (now the B1506). The northern boundary with Fordham follows the River Snail that rises in the parish, and the eastern boundary with Chippenham follows field boundaries. The parish has been occupied since at least the Bronze"
"and Withersfield. The constituency includes the town of Newmarket, the world headquarters of horse racing as well as the towns of Haverhill and Mildenhall with a farmed landscape, interspersed with patches of forest and small villages. This area includes a slightly older demographic profile than the national average, with a significant proportion of semi-detached and detached homes and a higher than average proportion of retired people. Major economic sectors include defence (RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath), agriculture/food (including for major products as well as regional specialities such as ales, Suffolk cider and cured meats), tourism and leisure (such as Newmarket"
"other towns voted for them, and they were approved by a majority decision. The Secretary of State immediately called the plans in, and a decision is expected in December 2015. The group has also opposed an application to replace the town's communal playing fields with a Sainsbury's supermarket. The application was refused. Save Historic Newmarket Save Historic Newmarket is grassroots organisation based in Newmarket, Suffolk, with the stated aim of preserving the town as the global centre of the horseracing industry and the many thousands of jobs it provides, and as a potential World Heritage Site. It came to national"
"Stetchworth Stetchworth is a small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England, to the south of the horse-racing centre of Newmarket and around east of Cambridge. The parish of Stetchworth is long and thin in shape, around six miles long and one mile wide and covering an area of . It stretches south east from Newmarket Heath to the border with Suffolk. Its relatively straight north-east border with Burwell and Woodditton follows the Devil's Dyke to its southern end just west of Ditton Green, from where the border follows field boundaries. Its long western border with Dullingham also follows"
"district area surrounding Newmarket, Suffolk, and has supported a number of towns in the district who wish to greatly increase their housing allocations. However, it also supports the view of major local businesses that the proposed use of Hatchfield farm for 1,200 houses would be disastrous for the town's small and major businesses and employees, partially owing to a congested and inflexible road system in the town and poor present means of movement for horses around the town. Over 3,000 horses live in Newmarket, and most need to use the training grounds on a daily basis. Save Historic Newmarket first"
"has only been part of Suffolk since 1994. Neighbouring Exning and the northern part of Newmarket were historically a detached island of Suffolk in east Cambridgeshire, and when the detached parts of counties were slowly removed in the 19th century, Exning was allowed to remain in Suffolk by transferring the narrow parish of Newmarket All Saints from Cambridgeshire to Suffolk in 1895 forming a bridge only a few tens of metres wide to attach it to the rest of Suffolk. In 1974 when the English counties were again adjusted, it was proposed that Newmarket and Exning be moved into Cambridgeshire,"
"Newmarket for an undisclosed fee, but moved back to Yorkshire to stand for a fee of five guineas at Newland Park near Wakefield in 1833. In the following year he moved to Thetford in Norfolk where he stood at a fee of fifteen guineas until 1839. The best of his progeny included St Francis, winner of the Ascot Gold Cup, Shillelagh second to Plenipotentiary in the 1837 Epsom Derby and Birdcatcher, the runner-up in the 1832 St Leger. Through his daughter Currency, he was the damsire of Saint Germain (Prix du Jockey Club) and Jouvence (Prix du Jockey Club, Prix"
"the bottom of the ditch to the top of the earth wall. Since the 19th century a railway line and roads have been cut through the dyke, including the combined A14 and A11 roads, and a branch line of the Ipswich to Ely rail line. From Reach, the dyke crosses farmland, before running along the edge of the July Course at Newmarket Racecourse and then through the woods of a private estate near the village of Woodditton. The Rowley Mile course is unusual in that it can have races which start in one county, Cambridgeshire, and finish in another, Suffolk."
"Suffolk. The Second World War led to horse racing being conducted on a restricted scale with a restructured programme. With many racecourses used by the military or considered dangerous due to their proximity to major population centres, races were either cancelled or moved away from their traditional venues. Most of the major races, including all the classics were run at Newmarket. Watling Street began his career by winning the Littleport Stakes and the Chesterfield Stakes in the spring of 1941. He then ran in the Coventry Stakes, which was run at Newmarket instead of its usual venue of Royal Ascot."
"Newmarket Town Plate The Newmarket Town Plate is a historic British horse race which has been run in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk since 1665 or 1666. The race was instigated by King Charles II, who became the first and only reigning monarch to win a race in 1671. He stated that it should be run 'forever'. It is run over 3 mile 6 furlongs of the Newmarket Round Course, which runs “on the outside of the Ditch from Newmarket ... starting and ending at the weighing post, by Cambridge Gap, called Thomond’s Post.” It is only used once a"
"Naughton, Suffolk Naughton is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Nedging-with-Naughton, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is north-west of Ipswich and south-west of Stowmarket. It was historically within the Cosford Hundred of Suffolk. The civil parish was merged with Nedging in 1935 to create Nedging-with-Naughton. In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 98. Naughton is formed from the junction of two roads, the Whatfield Road which comes in from the south-west and heads north to Nedging Tye and New Road which comes in from the south-east."
"Stowmarket Stowmarket ( ) is a small market town in Suffolk, England, on the busy A14 trunk road between Bury St Edmunds to the west and Ipswich to the southeast. The town is on the main railway line between London and Norwich, and lies on the River Gipping, which is joined by its tributary, the River Rat, to the south of the town. The town takes its name from the Old English word ""stōw"" meaning ""principal place"", and was granted a market charter in 1347 by Edward III. A bi-weekly market is still held there today on Thursday and Saturday."
"Newton, Suffolk Newton, also known as Newton Green to distinguish it from Nowton near Bury St Edmunds, and Old Newton near Stowmarket, is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Part of Babergh district, it is located on the A134 (Assington Road) between Sudbury and Colchester, around three miles from the former. Newton was recorded in Domesday as ""Niwetuna"". Church Road leads north off A134 towards Newton Hall and All Saints Church (both 1 km from the village centre). Unusually, the village green to the south and west has been converted to a 9-hole common land course in"
"only remaining pub, The George and Dragon, opened before 1834, moving to its present site in 1842. An annual fair, the Snailwell Medieval Fayre, is held each May in the village, though none was held in 2011. Snailwell Snailwell is a small village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire, England around north of Newmarket. The parish of Snailwell covers an area of in the extension of eastern Cambridgeshire that surrounds the town of Newmarket in Suffolk. The western and southern boundaries also form the border between Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, with the southern boundary following the line of the ancient Icknield"
"county of Suffolk (with the exception of Newmarket whose Scout Groups are associated with Cambridgeshire Scout County). The badge worn by members of the Suffolk Scout County shows a crown ""enfiled by a pair of Arrows in saltire points downwards"", which is an element from the heraldry of the regional county of Suffolk. The pierced crown relates to the martyrdom of Saint Edmund by the Danes in 849. The County is currently divided into eight Scout Districts: Membership of Suffolk Scout County was quoted as ""over 6000 young people aged 6-25"" in 2012. The East Anglia Area is part of"
"year for this race. Reputedly, the Plate was the first race to be run with a specific set of Rules. These included: The prizes for the contest include a box of Newmarket sausages. The 2012 edition of the race was won by amateur jockey, Clare Twemlow, on a horse called Raifteiri. In 2011, the Town Plate was won by Newmarket trainer and town councillor John Berry, riding his own horse Kadouchski. Newmarket Town Plate The Newmarket Town Plate is a historic British horse race which has been run in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk since 1665 or 1666. The race"
"2009-2010 The only pub in the Village is a 15th-century pub close to the golf course. The pub was renamed Saracens (formerly Saracens Head) in early 2010. Several farms in the area, Hill Farm to the west and Jarvis Farm to the southeast. Newton, Suffolk Newton, also known as Newton Green to distinguish it from Nowton near Bury St Edmunds, and Old Newton near Stowmarket, is a small village and civil parish in Suffolk, England. Part of Babergh district, it is located on the A134 (Assington Road) between Sudbury and Colchester, around three miles from the former. Newton was recorded"
"weekend in August, which includes the popular Duck Race on the River Waveney. Beccles Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Waveney district of the English county of Suffolk. The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 and A12 roads, northeast of London as the crow flies, southeast of Norwich, and north northeast of the county town of Ipswich. Nearby towns include Lowestoft to the east and Great Yarmouth to the northeast. The town lies on the River Waveney on the edge of The Broads National Park. It had a"
"in Newmarket, Suffolk. As a young horse, Turkan was a poor mover and was sold privately to the Aga Khan's son Prince Aly Khan. Turkhan's racing career took place during World War II during which horse racing in Britain was subject to many restrictions. Several major racecourses, including Epsom and Doncaster, were closed for the duration of the conflict, either for safety reasons, or because they were being used by the military. Many important races were rescheduled to new dates and venues, often at short notice, and all five of the Classics were usually run at Newmarket. Wartime austerity also"
"Newmarket Stakes The Newmarket Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old colts and geldings. It is run over a distance of 1 mile and 2 furlongs (2,012 metres) on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket in late April or early May. The original version of the Newmarket Stakes was established in the early 19th century. It was usually held on the final day of the venue's First Spring meeting in late April or early May. It was run on the Ditch Mile course over distances slightly under a mile. It ended after a period of"
"Newmarket, Lewis Newmarket (; ) is a village in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, on the isle of Lewis near Stornoway. It is part of the Leodsoch countryside and a peat site is not far away. Its nearest town is Stornoway and the nearest council headquarters is Na h-Eileanan Siar in Stornoway. Newmarket is within the parish of Stornoway. Newmarket is situated on the A857 at the junction with the B895. The remains of a stone circle exist to the west of the villages in a croft. The peat site is situated just at the border of the village, Laxdaleside."
"Mid Suffolk Mid Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England. Its council was based in Needham Market until late 2017, and are currently sharing offices with the Suffolk County Council at their headquarters in Ipswich. The largest town of Mid Suffolk is Stowmarket. The population of the District taken at the 2011 Census was 96,731. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Eye, Stowmarket urban district, Gipping Rural District, Hartismere Rural District and Thedwastre Rural District. The district has the largest number of parishes for a district Council in Suffolk,"
"A1120 road The A1120 is an 'A' road in the English county of Suffolk. It links Stowmarket to Yoxford passing through the centre of the county. It is long. From west to east the road passes through the following settlements: At Badingham the route follows the line of a Roman road. Due to this there have been numerous crashes at the end of the straight. The A1120 number was created by the complete merger of the B1114, partial merger with the B1119 from Saxtead to Badingham and most of the B1120 from Badingham to Yoxford where it meets the A12."
"A1120 road The A1120 is an 'A' road in the English county of Suffolk. It links Stowmarket to Yoxford passing through the centre of the county. It is long. From west to east the road passes through the following settlements: At Badingham the route follows the line of a Roman road. Due to this there have been numerous crashes at the end of the straight. The A1120 number was created by the complete merger of the B1114, partial merger with the B1119 from Saxtead to Badingham and most of the B1120 from Badingham to Yoxford where it meets the A12."