Newmarket Racecourse, Newmarket

Name: Newmarket Racecourse
Address: Newmarket, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Newmarket

Sport venue, Sport

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Newmarket Racecourse is a British Thoroughbred horse racing venue in 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 1 races. ()

Alternative names: Opened: 1667 (357 years ago)Coordinates: 52°13'51"N, 0°22'56"E

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Newmarket Racecourse – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stour Valley Path, Palace House, Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Burwell Museum.

0.9 miNE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Stour Valley Path, Newmarket
24 min walk • The Stour Valley Path is a 96-kilometre long-distance footpath in Suffolk, England, from Newmarket to Cattawade, a village near Manningtree. The path follows the catchment area of the River Stour. The majority of the route forms part of European Path E2.
1.4 miNE
Art gallery, Specialty museum, Shopping
Palace House, Newmarket
36 min walk • Palace House is the home of the National Horse Racing Museum in the remaining part of Charles II's racing palace in Newmarket, Suffolk, England.
3.9 miW
Church
Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta
100 min walk • The Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.7 miNW
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Burwell Museum
94 min walk • The Burwell Museum is located in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England. The museum depicts life through the centuries on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens. Opened in 1992, it is housed in a collection of different period and period style agricultural buildings.
6.6 miNW
Park
Wicken Fen
169 min walk • Wicken Fen is a 254.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. It is also a National Nature Reserve, and a Nature Conservation Review site.
6 miNE
Church
St Nicholas Church, Kennett
154 min walk • St Nicholas Church is the parish church of the village of Kennett in east Cambridgeshire. It has been dedicated to St Nicholas since the 13th century. The building consists of a chancel and an aisled nave with north porch and west tower.
5.5 miSW
Church
Great Wilbraham Preceptory
142 min walk • Great Wilbraham Preceptory is a preceptory in Great and Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. Much of the Church of Saint Nicholas at Great Wilbraham dates back to 1226 when a preceptory was established here by the Knights Templar when the manor was given to Alan Martel, who was at that time Templar Master.
4.5 miNW
Archaeological site
Devil's Dyke
115 min walk • Devil's Dyke or Devil's Ditch is a linear earthen barrier, thought to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, in eastern Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. It is now also a 98-acre biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It runs in an almost straight line from Woodditton south of Newmarket to Reach north-west of Newmarket.
5.6 miN
Memorial
Fordham War Memorial
143 min walk • Fordham War Memorial is a First World War memorial in the village of Fordham in Cambridgeshire in eastern England. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with sculpture by Sir George Frampton and closely resembles Hove War Memorial in East Sussex, which was also a collaboration between Lutyens and Frampton.
1.7 miNE
Sport venue, Sport
R. Cotton's Ground, Newmarket
45 min walk • R. Cotton's Ground is a cricket ground in Newmarket, Cambridgeshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864, when a combined Cambridge and Yorkshire team played a combined Kent and Nottinghamshire team in the ground's only first-class match.