It is also just a short drive from newmarket racecourse.
On the 31st of May 1647 Cromwell had ordered Cornet Joyce to prevent the king's removal by the parliament or the Scots from Holmby, and Joyce by his own authority and with the king's consent brought him to Newmarket to the headquarters of the army.
Of the suburbs, Newton, Parnell and Newmarket are in reality outlying parts of the town itself.
On the decease of the founder of the club, the members agreed to purchase a silver cup to be run for annually, and it was intended to pass from one to the other, like the whip at Newmarket, but before starting for it, in the year 1792, it was decided that the winner of the cup should keep it and that one should be annually purchased to be run for in November.
He went to school at Colchester and Maidstone, and in 1849 he became usher at a school in Newmarket.