"meeting was held on 11 February 1884 and the first race was won by Cowslip, which also went on to win another race later that day. Plumpton takes its place in racing history books, as it was the course where Tony McCoy rode his 3,000th winner on the Nicky Henderson trained Restless d'Artaix on 9 February 2009. Plumpton Racecourse Plumpton Racecourse is a National Hunt (jumping) horse-racing course at the village of Plumpton, East Sussex near Lewes and Brighton. Two of the smaller National Hunt race courses in Britain, it is rather hilly, a tightish left-handed circuit of just over"
"are of an attractive design, incorporating traditional red Sussex tile-hung walls. Plumpton railway station is on the East Coastway Line and the railway crossing had the last manually operated gates in Sussex, until finally replaced by automatic gates in 2016. As of December 2010 it has an hourly service in each direction, between Eastbourne, Hastings and Ore and London Victoria. As of December 2012, the gap in this schedule around mid-day on Sundays has been eliminated, with the introduction of a full service throughout the day. Plumpton Racecourse is located between the two villages, immediately to the south of the"
"(jumping) course at Plumpton. Major flat horse races include the Sussex Stakes and the Nassau Stakes, both at Goodwood. Hickstead near Burgess Hill is home to the All England Jumping Course which hosts the British Jumping Derby and the Royal International Horse Show. Notable horseriders from Sussex include Kristina Cook and Liam Treadwell. Golf in the county is administered by the Sussex County Golf Union, which arranges county championships and tournaments as well as inter-county matches. The PGA in Sussex (formerly known as the Sussex County PGA) was formed to run professional tournaments open to all PGA professionals and registered"
"Plumpton, Northamptonshire Plumpton is a place in Northamptonshire, England, in the civil parish of Weston and Weedon. It is within the ecclesiastical parish of ""St Mary & St Peter Lois Weedon with Weston and Plumpton"". The church of St John is grade II listedand is now cared for by a charity, the St. John the Baptist, Plumpton, Heritage Trust. The Manor House is grade II* listed; some of its associated gates and walls are separately grade II listed. The 1870-72 ""Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales"" describes Plumpton as having a population of 42 in 12 houses, and describes the"
"railway. Meetings draw large crowds and on race days the population of Plumpton doubles and the rail service is supplemented with extra trains. Races are sometimes televised, bringing Plumpton to a much wider audience than it would otherwise reach. In the early 1970s, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page purchased Plumpton Place, an Elizabethan manor, with 20th-century alterations by Sir Edwin Lutyens, surrounded by a moat and extensive gardens. With its relative proximity to Plumpton Racecourse the grounds also include stables for horses. Page outfitted the manor with a recording studio and the credits for the Led Zeppelin album ""In Through"
"Plumpton railway station (Cumbria) Plumpton railway station in Hesket parish in what is now Cumbria but was then Cumberland in the north west of England, was situated on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (the West Coast Main Line) between Carlisle and Penrith. It served the village of Plumpton and the surrounding hamlets. The station opened on 17 December 1846, and closed on 31 May 1948. The station was situated in the part of the village called Brockleymoor and had two platforms, a signal box, a station master's house and railway workers cottages. The relatively sizeable goods yard had a weighing"
"Tupton Tupton is a village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England, south of Chesterfield. The population of the civil parish including Egstow and Old Tupton was at the 2011 Census 3,428. It lies just north of Clay Cross on the A61 (Derby Road) which runs from Chesterfield to Alfreton. It comprises the areas of Old Tupton and New Tupton. However, it is generally referred to as Tupton. A similarly named area, Tapton, is a few miles away, being part of Chesterfield. The village has a primary school, and a secondary school with a sixth form. Tupton also"
"Flempton Flempton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. It is on the A1101 road from Bury St Edmunds. Flempton takes its name from the Flemings who came from Flanders and settled the area in Anglo-Saxon times. St Catherine's church is a grade II* listed building whose tower was rebuilt in 1839 after it collapsed. The East of England Regional Assembly was based in Flempton House. The village pub is ""The Greyhound"" on ""The Green"". It is close to the River Lark. Flempton Forge and nearby Forge Cottage are grade II listed buildings"
"Plumpton, Cumbria Plumpton or Plumpton Wall is a small village about north of Penrith, Cumbria. The village is made up of the former separate hamlets of Salkeld Gate and Brockleymoor and consists mainly of houses along a minor road connecting the A6 to the B5305 near Skelton and also a few houses and farms along the A6 itself. Close by are the settlements of Plumpton Head, Plumpton Foot and Plumpton Street. The earthwork remains of a substantial Roman fort can be seen at Castlesteads Farm, alongside the A6 road just north of the village. The fort was known in antiquity"
"Plompton Plompton (formerly also spelt Plumpton) is a hamlet and civil parish located south of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A661. ""Plompton Hall"" is a Grade II* listed building designed by the architect John Carr, and built about 1760. The composer John Hebden originates from the parish. Plompton was mentioned in the Domesday Book (as ""Plontone""), and in the middle ages was variously spelt Plumton, Plumpton or Plompton. The name is from the Old English ""plūme"" and ""tūn"", and means ""plum-tree farmstead"". Plompton or Plumpton was historically a township in the parish of Spofforth in"
"Kimpton, Hampshire Kimpton is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The village is situated west of Andover, in the north of the county, and has a boundary with Ludgershall, in Wiltshire. South of Kimpton there is Thruxton motor racing circuit, in the parish of Thruxton. The main settlement in the parish is the village of Kimpton, in the south of the parish; in the north there is the hamlet of Shoddesden. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 352. Before the reorganisation of local government in 1974, the parish was"
"church as ""good"" and having a ""pinnacled tower"". Plumpton was a civil parish until 1935. Plumpton, Northamptonshire Plumpton is a place in Northamptonshire, England, in the civil parish of Weston and Weedon. It is within the ecclesiastical parish of ""St Mary & St Peter Lois Weedon with Weston and Plumpton"". The church of St John is grade II listedand is now cared for by a charity, the St. John the Baptist, Plumpton, Heritage Trust. The Manor House is grade II* listed; some of its associated gates and walls are separately grade II listed. The 1870-72 ""Imperial Gazetteer of England and"
"Pembrey Circuit Pembrey Circuit is a motor racing circuit near Pembrey village, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is the home of Welsh motorsport, providing racing for cars, motorcycles, karts and trucks. The circuit's facilities have also been used for a single venue rally. The stimulus for the creation of a racing circuit at Pembrey was the closure of the motor racing facility at Llandow near Cardiff. Port Talbot Motor Cycle Racing Club were the first organisation to put on racing events at this circuit. In 1981 the Welsh Race Drivers' Association (WRDA) was formed with the expressed intention of developing a new"
"Kempton Park Racecourse Kempton Park Racecourse is a horse racing track together with a licensed entertainment and conference venue in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 16 miles south-west of Charing Cross, London and on a border of Greater London. The site has (0.85 km²) of flat grassland surrounded by woodland with two lakes in its centre. Its entrance borders Kempton Park railway station which was created for racegoers on a branch line from London Waterloo, via Clapham Junction. It has adjoining inner and outer courses for flat and fenced racing. Among its races, the King George VI Chase takes place on Boxing"
"Crabtree, Plymouth Crabtree is a suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Originally, it was a small village beside the coaching route around the top of the Plym Estuary where travellers stopped before or after crossing the marshland known as Marsh Mills and the road to Plympton then Exeter and London. Now it is part of the city of Plymouth and has been substantially overbuilt by a superstore, one of the largest roundabouts in the west of England, and a flyover carrying the A38 road. There is now a travel lodge and small housing estate. Various other hamlets"
"Thruxton Circuit Thruxton Motorsport Centre is a motor-racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which hosts motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing. It is often referred to as the ""Fastest Circuit in the UK"" where drivers can reach speeds of over 300kph and has earnt the reputation of being a true driver's track. To illustrate this, Damon Hill drove his Williams Formula One car around the circuit at an average speed of 147mph in 1993. The site also houses the headquarters of the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC). The site was originally"
"family who still own and operate the business. The marina has over 200 moorings. The village also has a karting track nearby called Whilton Mill. Whilton Whilton is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Northamptonshire. The population (including Slapton) at the 2011 Census was 271. The village is in the Daventry district. Whilton is northwest of London, west of Northampton and southeast of Rugby. The village lies east of the nearest town of Daventry. The nearest railway station is at Long Buckby for the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line which runs between"
"over 80 points, recording 14 wins and being the only team in all 12 divisions to stay unbeaten throughout the season. In 2013 the 1st xl had their best ever finish 4th in div1 and the 2nds were promoted to div 6. Plumpton is part of the electoral ward called Plumpton, Streat, East Chiltington and St John (Without). The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 2,276. Plumpton Primary School. is located in Plumpton Green and was built in 1974 for children living in Plumpton and surrounding villages, especially Wivelsfield, Hamsey, and Chailey. The school has an assembly"
"Windsor to Waterloo, a change can be made at Twickenham followed by nearby Teddington. The A308 passes by the racecourse and so does the A316 that becomes the M3 motorway. Free parking is available for visitors. Kempton Park Racecourse Kempton Park Racecourse is a horse racing track together with a licensed entertainment and conference venue in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 16 miles south-west of Charing Cross, London and on a border of Greater London. The site has (0.85 km²) of flat grassland surrounded by woodland with two lakes in its centre. Its entrance borders Kempton Park railway station which was created"
"be the location of an air raid shelter for Clay Cross Works. Once the war was over; the shelter was demolished and the crater left unfilled. Tupton Tupton is a village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, England, south of Chesterfield. The population of the civil parish including Egstow and Old Tupton was at the 2011 Census 3,428. It lies just north of Clay Cross on the A61 (Derby Road) which runs from Chesterfield to Alfreton. It comprises the areas of Old Tupton and New Tupton. However, it is generally referred to as Tupton. A similarly named area,"
"on The Green. The forge has recently been converted to a holiday let. Flempton Flempton is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England. It is on the A1101 road from Bury St Edmunds. Flempton takes its name from the Flemings who came from Flanders and settled the area in Anglo-Saxon times. St Catherine's church is a grade II* listed building whose tower was rebuilt in 1839 after it collapsed. The East of England Regional Assembly was based in Flempton House. The village pub is ""The Greyhound"" on ""The Green"". It is close to the"
"Scampton Scampton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brampton and Broadholme at the 2011 census was 1,358. It is situated north from Lincoln, south-east from Gainsborough, and west from the A15 road. In the civil parish, between the village and the A15, is RAF Scampton. The airfield first opened in 1916 as Home Defence Flight Station Brattleby, becoming Scampton the following year, and then closing in 1919; it re-opened in 1936 as RAF Scampton. The Dambusters Inn on High Street contains RAF and Second World"
"Plumpton were unemployed, slightly higher than average, while the average household income was slightly higher than the rest of the country. 87% of dwellings in Plumpton were fully detached houses, with the remainder consisting of attached houses such as townhouses and duplexes. There were only six apartments. The median rent was $350 per week (compared with $285 for all of Australia) and more than three-quarters of houses were owner-occupied. Plumpton, New South Wales Plumpton is located 46 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the"
"by the London and North Western Railway and the London Midland and Scottish Railway it was closed by British Railways on 31 May 1948 soon after nationalisation. Plumpton is within the civil parish of Hesket but was from 1866 to 1934 a separate parish under the name of Plumpton Wall. Before that it was a chapelry or township of Lazonby parish. The nearby areas of Plumpton Head, Plumpton Street and Plumpton Foot were not part of Plumpton parish but in Penrith or Hesket-in-the-Forest parishes. Plumpton, Cumbria Plumpton or Plumpton Wall is a small village about north of Penrith, Cumbria. The"
"in the 2011 IndyCar season finale held in Las Vegas. Hollington Wood, a small patch of ancient woodland, lies about a mile south-east of Emberton. The Milton Keynes Wind Farm is located 2 miles east of Emberton. The Emberton Country Park is also nearby. Emberton Emberton is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire in England. The village is near the border with Northamptonshire, just to the south of Olney and four miles north of Newport Pagnell. The parish of Emberton was formed from three villages that were annexed together for ecclesiastical"
"Slapton, Devon Slapton is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England. It is located near the A379 road between Kingsbridge and Dartmouth, and lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). In 1901 the population of the civil parish was 527, decreasing to 473 in 2001, and decreasing further to 434 at the 2011 census. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Blackawton, Strete, Stokenham and East Allington. Slapton was recorded in the Domesday Book as ""Sladone"". The Collegiate Chantry of St Mary was founded in"
"in 1989. Shropshire has a number of rugby clubs, including Newport (Salop) Rugby Union Football Club, the highest-leveled team in the county, playing in the National League 3 Midlands. The area also has a rich motorsports heritage, with the Loton Park Hillclimb and Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit situated near Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury Motocross Club has staged motocross events in the area for over 30 years. There is additionally an ice hockey club in the county, the Telford Tigers. The county of private and public golf courses, including the Church Stretton Golf Club, situated on the slopes of the Long Mynd. It"
"county in the domestic first class cricket County Championship; with a total of 32 championship titles, 14 more than any other county, Yorkshire is the most decorated county cricket club. Some of the most highly regarded figures in the game were born in the county, amongst them Geoffrey Boycott, Brian Close, George Hirst, Len Hutton, Stanley Jackson, Ray Illingworth, Wilfred Rhodes, Joe Root, Herbert Sutcliffe, Fred Trueman and Hedley Verity. England's oldest horse race, which began in 1519, is run each year at Kiplingcotes near Market Weighton. Continuing this tradition in the field of horse racing, there are currently in"
"the north the larger village of Plumpton Green where most of the community and services are based. Plumpton is probably best known for its race course and, to a lesser extent, Plumpton College, formerly Plumpton Agricultural College. Plumpton is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having a church and two mills, and is shown as 'Pluntune', meaning 'town or settlement where plum-trees grew'. Plumpton Green is essentially a ribbon development immediately to the north of the railway station and is home to the school, the village shop, a church and two pubs. The main thoroughfare, Station Road, runs"
"1931 and racing continued there until 1973. The site is now an industrial estate. Skimpot makes up the south-west area of the Challney ward of Luton. Skimpot Skimpot is a suburb of Luton in Bedfordshire, England. The area is roughly bounded by Dunstable Road to the north, Hatters Way to the south, Skimpot Road to the west, and the M1 to the east. Originally a small rural settlement, Skimpot was engulfed by the expanding town of Luton in the mid 20th century, and also adjoins the smaller town of Dunstable to the west. Skimpot Road forms part of the border"
"Slapton, Northamptonshire Slapton is a small village in Northamptonshire, England, about from Towcester and the same from Silverstone. It is close to the A43 road which links the M40 motorway junction 10 with the M1 junction 15A at Northampton. Central London is about 60 miles south of M40 junction 10. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Whilton. Slapton is represented on Woodend Parish Council and forms part of the Blakesley & Cote ward of South Northants District Council. The village is in the area of Northamptonshire County Council."
"Milton was home of the Catamount Speedway, which operated until 1988. Many racers who have gone through there went on to NASCAR fame, including Shelburne native Kevin Lepage. Milton is located in northern Chittenden County, bordered by Franklin County to the north and Grand Isle County to the northwest, across an arm of Lake Champlain. The town includes the community of Milton in the east, as well as the communities of Cozy Corner, West View, Checkerberry Village, and West Milton from east to west across the center of the town. The Lamoille River flows from northeast to southwest across the"
"good according to all the main criteria at the most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2012. Previously there were two separate schools on the same site: an infants school and a junior school. The Anglican church of St Mary Magdalene shares its clergy with the parishes of Ellington and Grafham. There is a Methodist church belonging to the St Neots and Huntingdon circuit on The Green. Brampton, Cambridgeshire Brampton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, about south-west of Huntingdon. It lies within Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. According to the"