by Graham | Feb 28, 2019 | Middle England - East Midlands Tracks
Leicester Road, Markfield LE67 9RF The village of Markfield lies seven miles northwest of the City of Leicester, and just one mile southeast of the busy M1 motorway. It is here on the north-western outskirts of the village that Greyhound Racing once took place, with...
by Graham | Feb 28, 2019 | South West England Tracks
The Old Racecourse, Abbotsham, Bideford, EX39 5BH Although the North Devon town of Bideford had last experienced Greyhound Racing during the mid-1980’s, it is known that the sport once flourished almost sixty years earlier, on a track situated roughly three...
by Graham | Feb 28, 2019 | South West England Tracks
A race card obtained for a meeting in Bude in Cornwall, has unearthed the question were was the tracks’ location. After visiting Bude and discussing the issue with local historians it has become virtually impossible to locate where the sport actually took place....
by Graham | Feb 28, 2019 | North West England Tracks
Little Park, Roose, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria LA13 Another of the less established Greyhound Racing venues in the northwest was the one that operated on the outskirts of Barrow-in-Furness. It was known as Little Park, a venue found in the district of Roose, an area...
by Graham | Feb 28, 2019 | Middle England - South East Midlands Tracks
Tilbury Stadium, Broadway, Tilbury, Essex, RM18 7BP It is known that at least two Greyhound Racing venues existed in Tilbury, the latter descried in this paragraph known as The Tilbury Stadium. It was a basic sort of a venue, with no covered spectator viewing areas,...
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