R. Cotton's Ground, Newmarket

Name: R. Cotton's Ground
Address: Newmarket, United Kingdom

#7 among attractions in Newmarket

Sport venue, Sport

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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. The first Minor Counties Championship match held on the ground was in 1908, when Cambridgeshire played Suffolk. From 1908 to 1911, the ground hosted 4 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Minor Counties fixture seeing Cambridgeshire entertain Suffolk. ()

Coordinates: 52°14'55"N, 0°24'42"E

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Newmarket United Kingdom

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R. Cotton's Ground – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

1.7 miSW
Sport venue, Sport
Newmarket Racecourse, Newmarket
45 min walk • Newmarket Racecourse is a British Thoroughbred horse racing venue in Newmarket, Suffolk, comprising two individual racecourses: the Rowley Mile and the July Course.
0.8 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Stour Valley Path, Newmarket
21 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.
~1940 ftSW
Art gallery, Specialty museum, Shopping
Palace House, Newmarket
10 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.
4.9 miW
Church
Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta
125 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.
3.8 miNW
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Burwell Museum
99 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.
6.7 miNW
Park
Wicken Fen
170 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.
4.6 miE
Park
Dalham Hall
119 min walk • Dalham Hall is a country house and 3,300-acre estate, located in the village of Dalham, Suffolk, near Newmarket, and 13 kilometres west of Bury St Edmunds. Owners of the Dalham estate have included: c.1050-1240 Peche Family 1240-1320 English Crown Estate 1320-1362 Walter de...
4.3 miNE
Church
St Nicholas Church, Kennett
110 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.
5.1 miW
Archaeological site
Devil's Dyke
129 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.
4.4 miN
Memorial
Fordham War Memorial
114 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.
5.5 miN
Park
Isleham Nature Reserve, Isleham
141 min walk • Isleham Nature Reserve is a 1.1 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Isleham in Cambridgeshire. It is owned by Cambridgeshire County Council and managed by the council together with the Friends of Isleham Nature Reserves.