Lost racecourses 5 – Cheltenham Park
Until 2009 Gloucestershire was not the only place to host racing at Cheltenham. As early as 1895 the suburb of Cheltenham, about five miles north west of central Adelaide had a track known as Cheltenham Park.
John Bunyan, the most famous resident of the small village of Elstow, would not have approved of racing. He had shuffled off this mortal coil in 1688, though had he been around 40 years later, there may never have been any racing at Bedford.
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Catch the train from Birmingham and alight at Colwall a few hundred yards after you emerge from the tunnel through the Malvern Hills. You are following in the footsteps of many of the spectators at what was one of England’s prettiest racecourses. A day trip from South Wales made the track as popular with people [...]
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At around quarter to four tomorrow a craftsman will inscribe in gold leaf the name of the latest winner of the Scottish Grand National on a large oak board at Ayr racecourse. But the board and the race are both interlopers, as until 1965, they wee both to be found 14 miles up the coast [...]
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Mention the town of Chesterfield to people and quite a number will think of the Crooked Spire on the parish church of St Mary’s. Those with an interest in sport may well refer to the 1997 FA Cup semi-final, when the debate about whether or not the football has crossed the goal line was first [...]
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