JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
THE DONCASTER MEETING, 1891. 
In selecting Doucaster as the place of its Country Meeting for 
1891 the Royal Agricultural Society entered upon new ground, 
never having hitherto met within thirty miles of this famous 
centre in South Yorkshire. It was, however, not the fault of 
Doncaster that more than half a century should have elapsed 
since the birth of the Society before it had an opportunity of 
welcoming " the Royal." within its borders, for as long ago as 
1848 it was one of half-a-dozen towns which extended an invi- 
tation to the Society on the occasion of its first visit to the 
county of broad acres — an invitation that was repeated in 18G1, 
when Leeds was the successful competitor. 
The Society has met on four previous occasions in York- 
shire — at York in 1848, under the presidency of the second Earl 
of Yarborough ; at Leeds in 1861, under the presidency of the 
late Earl of Powis ; at Hull in 1873, under the presidency of 
Earl Cathcart; and at York, for the second time, in 1883, under 
the presidency of the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K.G. 
The Show-Ground. 
An extent of 80 acres of almost level ground upon Doncaster 
Town Moor afforded an admirable site for the showyard. As will 
be seen from the plan on page 443, the ground occupied a portion 
of the area surrounded by the racecourse, whilst the entrances 
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