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NEWMARKET , a marketSee also: town in the Newmarket See also: parliamentary division of See also: Cambridgeshire, See also: England, 131 M
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E. by N. of Cambridge on the See also: Bury branch of the See also: Great Eastern railway
.
Pop
.
(19o1) 1o,688
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A See also: part of the town is in See also: Suffolk, and the See also: urban See also: district is in the administrative county of West Suffolk
.
Newmarket has been celebrated for its See also: horse-races from the See also: time of See also: James I., though at that time there was more of coursing and hawking than horse-racing
.
See also: Charles I. instituted the first cup-
See also: race here
.
For the use of Charles II., during his visits to the races, a palace, no longer extant, was built on the site of the See also: lodge of James I
.
There are numerous residences belonging to patrons of the See also: turf, together with stables, and racing and training establishments
.
The racecourse, which lies See also: south-west of the town, has a full extent of 4 m., but is divided into various lengths to suit the different races
.
The course intersects the so-called Devil's Ditch or Dyke (sometimes also known as St Edmund's Dyke), an earthwork consisting of a ditch and See also: mound stretching almost straight for 5 M. from Reach to See also: Wood See also: Ditton
.
It is 12 ft. wide at the top, 18 ft. above the level of the country, and 30 ft. above the bottom of the ditch, with a slope of 5o ft. on the south-west See also: side and 26 ft. on the See also: north-See also: east
.
It formed part of the boundary between the kingdoms of East Anglia and See also: Mercia, but is doubtless of much earlier origin
.
See also: Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood
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