BRITISH TURF. 



18*^ 



Artillery Ground, London. 

 Tothill Fields, AVestminster. 

 ^orthwich, Cheshire. 

 Hardmead, Herts. 

 Ormskirk, Lancashire. 

 Binbrooke, Lincolnshire. 

 Wisbich, Norfolk. 

 Beccles, Suflfolk, 

 Morpeth, Northumberland. 

 Hampstead, Middlesex. 

 Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. 

 Romford, Essex. 

 Stockton, Durham; 

 Hownslow, Middlesex. 

 Lamborn, Berkshire. 

 Bishop Auckland, Durham. 

 Stokesley, Yorkshire. 

 Egremont, Cumberland. 

 Swaffham, Norfolk. 

 Bellsize, Middlesex. 

 Crabtree, Cheshire. 

 Spalding, Lincolnshire. 

 Towcester, Northamptonshire. 

 Barnstaple, Devonshire. 



Uppingham, Rutlandshire. 

 Bedale, Yorkshire. 

 Newark, Nottinghamshire. 

 Lowth, Lincolnshire. 

 Bishop's Burton, Yorkshire. 

 Rugby, Warwickshire. 

 Dunstable, Bedfordshire. 

 Loughborough, Leicestershire. 

 Alnwick, Northumberland. 

 Selby, Yorkshire. 

 Holt, Norfolk. 

 Ashbourne, Derbyshire. 



Odsey, Hertfordshire. 



Croydon, Surrey. 



Follifoot, Yorkshire. 



Newbig Link, Northumberland. 



Woodstock, Oxfordshire. 



Ludlow, Shropshire. 



Wallesay, Cheshire. 



Lilly Hoo, Hertfordshire. 



Welch Pool, Wales. 



Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Hexam, Northumberland. 



Islip, Oxfordshire. 



Thus in 1800, we find that annual racing meet- 

 ings were held at only sixty-six towns in England 

 and Wales, five in Scotland, and four in Ireland. 

 In 1816, after the last great peace, we already find 

 them on the increase, the number in that year 

 being eighty-four in England and Wales, nine in 

 Scotland, and eight in Ireland.* But so rapid has 

 been the increase since then, that the number 



* It must be always borne in mind that at the Curragh of Kildare, 

 the Newmarket of Ireland, frequent racing meetings are held during 

 the year, the same as at Newmarket. 



