EARLS BARTON GREYHOUND STADIUM

This site is not an official website for the track shown here and is neither approved or endorsed by the stadium. I am indebted to Richard English for helping to construct this page. 

The Earls Barton greyhound stadium was on the edge of Northampton on the Northampton Road and situated at 0° 44' W 52° 15' N. It shared its greyhound facilities with speedway and first opened for racing in 1940.

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The track closed in 1970 and has since reverted to the towns playing field.

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I am grateful to Jon Seddon for the following link to a map showing the whereabouts of the old track
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?txtXCoord=485865&txtYCoord=262213

This section gives a comprehensive picture of the badges produced by the track throughout the ages, but only provides the briefest of glimpses of its history. For those wishing to undertake further research we can recommend a visit to

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwgreyhoundd-21 where further reading can be undertaken.

If you have rare Earls Barton racecards, badges, results, information, favourite stories or artefacts then email johnslusar@fsmail.net