Pontefract Racecourse
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Overview
Horse racing is known to have taken place around Pontefract during the eighteenth century, but the first grandstand on the current course is recorded as being built in 1801. The course now stages 16 flat race meetings between April and October of each calendar year including 3 Family Sunday afternoons, 3 entertaining Evenings and 10 marvellous midweek afternoons!
Ratings & awards
Quality assured racecourse
Location
Pontefract Racecourse, Pontefract Park, Park Road, PONTEFRACT, West Yorkshire, WF8 4QD
About the area
Everybody knows that Yorkshire has some special landscapes. The Dales and the Moors first spring to mind, but what about West Yorkshire? That’s Leeds and Bradford isn’t it? Back-to-back houses and blackened mills… Certainly if you had stood on any of the hills surrounding Hebden Bridge a hundred years ago, and gazed down into the valley, all you would have seen was the pall of smoke issuing from the chimneys of 33 textile mills.
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