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NEWMARKET , a See also:market See also:town in the Newmarket See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cambridgeshire, See also:England, 131 M. E. by N. of See also:Cambridge on the See also:Bury See also:branch of the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. (19o1) 1o,688. A See also:part of the town is in See also:Suffolk, and the See also:urban See also:district is in the administrative See also:county of See also:West Suffolk. Newmarket has been celebrated for its See also:horse-races from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., though at that time there was more of See also:coursing and hawking than horse-racing. See also:Charles I. instituted the first See also:cup-See also:race here. For the use of Charles II., during his visits to the races, a See also: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 See also:Devil's Ditch or Dyke (sometimes also known as St See also: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 See also:top, 18 ft. above the level of the See also: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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