30/08/2026
The most fabulous open space for dog walks 👌
A warm summer morning at Richmond Racecourse, and from up here you can still read the shape of what was once one of the grandest racing venues in Georgian England.
Horse racing was happening around Richmond as early as 1512, with racing moving to this site on Low Moor in 1765. The course finally closed in 1891, but its extraordinary Georgian grandstand survives - built around 1775 and regarded as the oldest surviving stone-built public racecourse grandstand in the world.
And there’s some genuinely good news too. More than £400,000 has now been secured to stabilise and restore the old grandstand, giving this remarkable survivor a much better chance of still being here for generations to come. One of those places where the history is still written into the landscape, even long after the crowds and horses have gone.
