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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

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1819
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."

text:-  
The usual mixture of horse races, wrestling, cock fighting etc. The Sporting Magazine, 1820:-
"[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.]"
In 1829 there was a regatta as well. In two events, John Peel was the second on his brown mare, Skiddaw Lass.

Fairfax-Blakeborough 1950


photograph
BRA61.jpg  poster for Keswick Regatta and Races, 1828.
(taken 9.7.2009)  

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