Wye Racecourse, Wye

#2 among attractions in Wye

Sport, Sport venue

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Facts and practical information

Wye Racecourse was a British horse racing venue, situated in East Kent between Ashford and Canterbury about 600 yards south of Wye railway station. ()

Opened: 29 May 1849 (175 years ago)Coordinates: 51°10'35"N, 0°55'52"E

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Wye United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Ashford Golf Club, County Square Shopping Centre, Ashford Designer Outlet, Godinton House.

3.2 miW
Outdoor activities, Golf
Ashford Golf Club, Ashford
83 min walk • Ashford Golf Club is a private members golf club located off the A20 road to the west of Ashford, Kent, England, close to junction 9 of the M20 motorway which leads on to the Channel Tunnel and Ports with good access to the Continent.
3.3 miSW
51°8'54"N • 0°52'11"E
County Square Shopping Centre, Ashford
84 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
3.6 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Ashford Designer Outlet, Ashford
92 min walk • The Ashford Designer Outlet is a shopping centre in Ashford, Kent, England. The McArthurGlen Ashford Designer Outlet was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and engineers Buro Happold, and opened in March 2000. There are over 120 designer brands located at the shopping outlet.
4.4 miW
Museum, Garden, Historical place
Godinton House, Ashford
113 min walk • Godinton House is a stately home in the parish of Great Chart, owned by a non-profit-making trust. It is 2 miles north-west of the centreof the town of Ashford, Kent, UK.
3.1 miNE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Stour Valley Walk
79 min walk • The Stour Valley Walk is a recreational walking route that follows the River Stour, through the Low Weald and Kent Downs, from its source at Lenham to its estuary at Pegwell Bay.
2 miSW
Park
Conningbrook Lakes Country Park, Ashford
51 min walk • Conningbrook Lakes Country Park is a 34.3-hectare nature reserve in Kennington, Ashford in Kent. It is managed by Kent Wildlife Trust. There are three lakes in these former gravel pits, and other habitats are ponds, a river, grassland and wet woodland.
2.7 miSW
Museum, Architecture
Willesborough Windmill, Ashford
68 min walk • New Mill is a Grade II* listed smock mill in Hythe Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent. It stands just west of junction 10 of the M20 motorway. It was built in 1869 and is now a museum open to the public.
1.9 miNW
Church
Saint Christopher's Church, Kent Downs
49 min walk • Saint Christopher's Church is a mediaeval Grade II listed church in Boughton Lees near Ashford, Kent, part of the Church of England. The building was originally a mediaeval hall house. It was later a barn and the village school. In the 1950s, it was adopted as a chapel of ease.
1.7 miNW
Church
All Saints' Church
43 min walk • All Saints' Church is a 13th-century pilgrims' Grade I listed church in Boughton Aluph near Ashford, Kent. It is part of the Church of England.
2.5 miNW
Archaeological site
Jacket's Field Long Barrow, Kent Downs
64 min walk • Jacket's Field Long Barrow is an unchambered long barrow located near to the village of Boughton Aluph in the south-eastern English county of Kent. It was probably constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period.
1.7 miNE
Park
Olantigh, Kent Downs
43 min walk • Olantigh is a house 1 mile north of Wye in Kent, southeast England. It includes a garden of 20 acres. The hamlet in which the property stands is Little Olantigh.