Newmarket, Suffolk (gbr)

Newmarket, Suffolk

Newmarket, Suffolk ranks 5,821st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Abay (town), Recanati, and Guingamp. Memorable people born in Newmarket, Suffolk include Jimmy Gardner, W. T. Tutte, and Ross Edgar. Memorable people who died in Newmarket, Suffolk include Glenn Roeder. Newmarket, Suffolk has been the birth place of many actors, and mathematicians and the death place of many soccer players. Newmarket, Suffolk is located in United Kingdom.

Newmarket is a market town and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, 14 miles west of Bury St Edmunds and 14 miles northeast of Cambridge. In 2021, it had a population of 16,772. It is a global centre for thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse training, breeding, and horse health. Two Classic races and three British Champions Series races are held at Newmarket every year. The town has had close royal connections since the time of James I, who built a palace there, and was also a base for Charles I, Charles II, and most monarchs since. Elizabeth II visited the town often to see her horses in training. Read more on Wikipedia