York Racecourse
Historic flat-racing course on a drained common, with a Georgian grandstand arcade still in use.
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This guide to York Racecourse stands on the Knavesmire, a marshy common turned racetrack, and follows the first grandstand John Carr built there in the seventeen-fifties. It is a story about stone and money: two hundred and fifty subscribers, the brass tokens that proved their claim, and an alderman's drains under the turf. Best heard by the old arches beside the parade ring.
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