Free Rein index

Through Georgian times and into Queen Victoria’s reign dozens of small country racecourses flourished in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

Oxford, Abingdon, Wantage, East Ilsley, Faringdon, Lambourn, Marlborough, Hungerford, Newbury, Bucklebury, Reading, Odiham, Basingstoke, Andover, Stockbridge, Winchester and Southampton were all, at one time or another, racecourse towns.

But by 1880 almost all these once-thriving meetings had been extinguished.

Free Rein: Racing in Berkshire and Beyond, 1700-1905

by Penelope Stokes

tells the story of these forgotten racecourses - their heyday in the eighteenth century, and their doomed struggle for survival in the nineteenth.

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Newbury, Berks RG20 0HW

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paperback approx 10in x 7in, 131 pages, with maps and illustrations, indexed



	Through Georgian times and into Queen Victoria’s reign dozens of small country racecourses flourished in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Oxford, Abingdon, Wantage, East Ilsley, Faringdon, Lambourn, Marlborough, Hungerford, Newbury, Bucklebury, Reading, Odiham, Basingstoke, Andover, Stockbridge, Winchester and Southampton were all, at one time or another, racecourse towns. But by 1880 almost all these once-thriving meetings had been extinguished. Free Rein: Racing in Berkshire and Beyond, 1700-1905 by Penelope Stokes tells the story of these forgotten racecourses - their heyday in the eighteenth century, and their doomed struggle for survival in the nineteenth.

		OVERSTOCKS NOW BEING DISPOSED OF FOR COST OF POSTAGE ONLY Send a self-addressed label stamped to the value of £1.94* to Penelope Stokes The Holding Hamstead Marshall Newbury, Berks RG20 0HW *£4.50 for airmail to Europe, £6.50 for airmail elsewhere or contact the author about paying through Paypal

paperback approx 10in x 7in, 131 pages, with maps and illustrations, indexed