Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| race course, Keswick | ||
| Keswick Race Ground | ||
| locality:- | Crow Park | |
| locality:- | Keswick | |
| civil parish:- | Keswick (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | race course | |
| coordinates:- | NY26332302 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2623 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1819 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, 2 volumes, The Tourist's New Guide, by William
Green, Ambleside, published by R Lough and Co, Chronicle Office,
Finkle Street, Kendal, and others, 1819 and 1820. vol.2 p.80 "As if, for the accomodation of strangers, the race-course on Crow Park, made last year, is of an elevation, nicely calculated for a display , in a series of combinations, those objects which, from the crown of the hill, are given in a fine panorama fo the surrounding country." |
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The usual mixture of horse races, wrestling, cock fighting etc. The Sporting Magazine,
1820:- |
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| "[The races at Keswick, of which the reputation is annually increasing, were exceedingly
well attended. The verdant slope which descends into Derwentwater, at the foot of
which is the racecourse, Skiddaw and the other mountains, with which the ground is
embossomed, the booths on the swelling eminence, the boats on the lake and the multitude
that assembled, formed together an exquisite picture.]" |
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| In 1829 there was a regatta as well. In two events, John Peel was the second on his
brown mare, Skiddaw Lass. |
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| Fairfax-Blakeborough 1950 |
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 BRA61.jpg poster for Keswick Regatta and Races, 1828. (taken 9.7.2009) |
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