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class="infobox-label">Closed</th><td class="infobox-data">1965</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dagenham Greyhound Stadium</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Greyhound_racing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom">greyhound racing</a> stadium in <a href="/wiki/Dagenham" title="Dagenham">Dagenham</a>, London. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1930 an independent greyhound track (unaffiliated to a governing body) opened in Dagenham. It was situated on the north of the London, Tilbury and Southend railway and was accessed on Pooles Lane off the Ripple Road.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track was small and basic with sharp turns favouring railers (greyhounds nearest to the inside rail. In 1931 the track used an alternative to the new automatic <a href="/wiki/Tote_board" title="Tote board">totalisator</a> by using water displacement instead of electricity.<sup id="cite_ref-GR_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1938 Romford Stadium Ltd (the owners of the recently built <a href="/wiki/Romford_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Romford Greyhound Stadium">Romford Greyhound Stadium</a>) purchased the site with plans to rebuild the greyhound track which is sometimes referred to as the <b>Old Dagenham track</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-GR_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opening">Opening</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Opening"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The construction took nine months to complete and <a href="/wiki/George_Bowyer,_1st_Baron_Denham" title="George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham">Lord Denham</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Greyhound_Racing_Club" title="National Greyhound Racing Club">National Greyhound Racing Club</a> who had opened <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Stadium" title="Oxford Stadium">Oxford Stadium</a> four days earlier arrived on the 4 April 1939 to officially open the new stadium. All races were worth £10 to the winners.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png/220px-Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png/330px-Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png/440px-Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium_c.1950.png 2x" data-file-width="595" data-file-height="447" /></a><figcaption>Greyhounds rounding the first bend at Dagenham Greyhound Stadium c.1950</figcaption></figure> <p>Despite opening close to the start of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a> the stadium flourished causing the authorities to question issues such as the use of public transport for non essential travel and the morality of racing during the war. In 1942 the track was subject to an identity swoop by military police looking for service absentees and civilians with defective identity cards.<sup id="cite_ref-PB_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 1941 two teenagers carrying a ladder hit an overhanging electric cable killing 16 year old Harold Brindley and badly burning his friend 17 year old John Love and in March 1944 <a href="/wiki/West_Ham_Stadium" title="West Ham Stadium">West Ham Stadium</a> switched their racing to Dagenham for a short time whilst the West Ham track was closed.<sup id="cite_ref-PB_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The circuit had a circumference of 380 yards and was therefore described as a little track with sharp turns favouring railers, the distances raced were 460 and 650 yards and the greyhounds raced behind a 'Trackless McWhirter' hare system. Facilities included the Junior Club and Senior Club, the latter housed the hare control room, press box and judges room and to its left was a tea bar. Additionally both clubs offered hot and cold buffets. Behind the 650 yards traps was a weights board display and between the first and second bends was the totalisator. In addition to the rack kennels and weighing room on the home straight there were residential kennels nearby at Heaton Grange, Straight Road in Romford.<sup id="cite_ref-GR_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Dagenham_Coup">The Dagenham Coup</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Dagenham Coup"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The stadium will be forever remembered for one of the most infamous moments in greyhound racing history on 30 June 1964 that was given the name <a href="/wiki/The_Dagenham_Coup" title="The Dagenham Coup">The Dagenham Coup</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Closure">Closure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Closure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a result of the Dagenham Coup the stadium failed to recover and following the court cases Romford Stadium Ltd sold their controlling interest for £185,000 to Reynolds packaging in 1965. Romford Stadium Ltd stated that government restrictions on fixtures forced both tracks (Dagenham and Romford) to race on the same day and that in turn impacted attendances. The site today is an industrial area off Choats Manor Way north of the railway line.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Track_records">Track records</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dagenham_Greyhound_Stadium&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Track records"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size: 100%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="50">Distance <br />yards </th> <th width="200">Greyhound </th> <th width="50">Time </th> <th width="100">Date </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td>650</td> <td>Haverbrack Rona</td> <td>38.01</td> <td>1950 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="/wiki/Doncaster_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Doncaster Greyhound Stadium">Stainforth</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Exeter Greyhound Stadium">Exeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redheugh_Park" title="Redheugh Park">Gateshead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloucester_%26_Cheltenham_Stadium" title="Gloucester & Cheltenham Stadium">Gloucester and Cheltenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halifax_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Halifax Greyhound Stadium">Halifax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlow_Stadium" title="Harlow Stadium">Harlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henlow_Stadium" title="Henlow Stadium">Henlow</a></li> <li>Hull <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Boulevard_(stadium)" title="The Boulevard (stadium)">Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Craven_Park" title="Old Craven Park">Old Craven Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craven_Park,_Hull" title="Craven Park, Hull">New Craven Park</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huntingdon_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Huntingdon Greyhound Stadium">Huntingdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ipswich_Stadium" title="Ipswich Stadium">Ipswich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinsley_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Kinsley Greyhound Stadium">Kinsley</a></li> <li>Leeds <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elland_Road_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Elland Road Greyhound Stadium">Elland Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fullerton_Park" title="Fullerton Park">Fullerton Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkside_Sports_Stadium" title="Parkside Sports Stadium">Parkside</a></li></ul></li> <li>Leicester <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leicester_(Aylestone_Road)_Greyhound_Track" title="Leicester (Aylestone Road) Greyhound Track">Aylestone Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicester_Stadium" title="Leicester Stadium">Blackbird Road</a></li></ul></li> <li>Liverpool <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Breck_Park_Stadium" title="Breck Park Stadium">Breck Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaforth_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Seaforth Greyhound Stadium">Seaforth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Greyhound_Stadium_(Liverpool)" title="Stanley Greyhound Stadium (Liverpool)">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Stadium_(Liverpool)" title="White City Stadium (Liverpool)">White City</a></li></ul></li> <li>London <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brixton_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Brixton Greyhound Stadium">Brixton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catford_Stadium" title="Catford Stadium">Catford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlton_Stadium" title="Charlton Stadium">Charlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clapton_Stadium" title="Clapton Stadium">Clapton</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dagenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hackney_Wick_Stadium" title="Hackney Wick Stadium">Hackney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harringay_Stadium" title="Harringay Stadium">Harringay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hendon_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Hendon Greyhound Stadium">Hendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Cross_Stadium" title="New Cross Stadium">New Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Royal_Stadium" title="Park Royal Stadium">Park Royal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Hill_Stadium" title="Perry Hill Stadium">Perry Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stamford_Bridge_Greyhounds" title="Stamford Bridge Greyhounds">Stamford Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walthamstow_Stadium" title="Walthamstow Stadium">Walthamstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Stadium" title="Wandsworth Stadium">Wandsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicarage_Road" title="Vicarage Road">Watford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wembley_Greyhounds" title="Wembley Greyhounds">Wembley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Ham_Stadium" title="West Ham Stadium">West Ham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Greyhounds" title="White City Greyhounds">White City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_Stadium" title="Wimbledon Stadium">Wimbledon</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Eaton_Stadium" title="Long Eaton Stadium">Long Eaton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athletic_Ground,_Maidstone" title="Athletic Ground, Maidstone">Maidstone</a></li> <li>Manchester <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Audenshaw_Greyhound_Racing_and_Sports_Ground" title="Audenshaw Greyhound Racing and Sports Ground">Audenshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belle_Vue_Stadium" title="Belle Vue Stadium">Belle Vue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Stadium_(Manchester)" title="White City Stadium (Manchester)">White City</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Field_Mill" title="Field Mill">Mansfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Park_Stadium" title="Cleveland Park Stadium">Middlesbrough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mildenhall_Stadium" title="Mildenhall Stadium">Mildenhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Milton Keynes Greyhound Stadium">Milton Keynes</a></li> <li>Newcastle <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newcastle_Stadium" title="Newcastle Stadium">Brough Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gosforth_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Gosforth Greyhound Stadium">Gosforth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Stadium_(Newcastle)" title="White City Stadium (Newcastle)">White City</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norton_Canes_Stadium" title="Norton Canes Stadium">Norton Canes</a></li> <li>Norwich <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boundary_Park_Stadium" title="Boundary Park Stadium">Boundary Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_Stadium,_Norwich" title="City Stadium, Norwich">City Stadium</a></li></ul></li> <li>Nottingham <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Nottingham Greyhound Stadium">Colwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Stadium_(Nottingham)" title="White City Stadium (Nottingham)">White City</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldham_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Oldham Greyhound Stadium">Oldham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Stadium" title="Oxford Stadium">Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelaw_Grange" title="Pelaw Grange">Pelaw Grange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peterborough_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Peterborough Greyhound Stadium">Peterborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennycross_Stadium" title="Pennycross Stadium">Plymouth (Pennycross)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poole_Stadium" title="Poole Stadium">Poole</a></li> <li>Portsmouth <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Greyhound_Track_(Copnor)" title="Portsmouth Greyhound Track (Copnor)">(Copnor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_Stadium" title="Portsmouth Stadium">Tipner</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Preston Greyhound Stadium">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramsgate_Stadium" title="Ramsgate Stadium">Ramsgate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rayleigh_Weir_Stadium" title="Rayleigh Weir Stadium">Rayleigh Weir</a></li> <li>Reading <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reading_Stadium" title="Reading Stadium">Bennet Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading_Stadium_(Oxford_Road)" title="Reading Stadium (Oxford Road)">Oxford Road</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athletic_Grounds,_Rochdale" title="Athletic Grounds, Rochdale">Rochdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochester_Stadium" title="Rochester Stadium">Rochester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romford_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Romford Greyhound Stadium">Romford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rye_House_Stadium" title="Rye House Stadium">Rye House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albion_Greyhound_Racecourse" title="Albion Greyhound Racecourse">Salford (Albion)</a></li> <li>Sheffield <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Darnall_Stadium" title="Darnall Stadium">Darnall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owlerton_Stadium" title="Owlerton Stadium">Owlerton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Park_Stadium" title="Central Park Stadium">Sittingbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slough_Stadium" title="Slough Stadium">Slough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banister_Court_Stadium" title="Banister Court Stadium">Southampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southend_Stadium" title="Southend Stadium">Southend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horsley_Hill" title="Horsley Hill">South Shields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spennymoor_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Spennymoor Greyhound Stadium">Spennymoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staines_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Staines Greyhound Stadium">Staines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Stanley Greyhound Stadium">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Grove_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Hazel Grove Greyhound Stadium">Stockport (Hazel Grove)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athletic_Ground_(Cobridge)" title="Athletic Ground (Cobridge)">Stoke (Cobridge)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunderland_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Sunderland Greyhound Stadium">Sunderland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swaffham_Raceway" title="Swaffham Raceway">Swaffham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swindon_Stadium" title="Swindon Stadium">Swindon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamworth_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Tamworth Greyhound Stadium">Tamworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Towcester_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Towcester Greyhound Stadium">Towcester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Wakefield Greyhound Stadium">Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warrington_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Warrington Greyhound Stadium">Warrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willenhall_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Willenhall Greyhound Stadium">Willenhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wisbech_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Wisbech Greyhound Stadium">Wisbech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monmore_Green_Stadium" title="Monmore Green Stadium">Wolverhampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarmouth_Stadium" title="Yarmouth Stadium">Yarmouth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#000080;color:white;"><div id="Unlicensed_tracks_(independent_/_flapping)"><b>Unlicensed tracks (independent / flapping)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aldershot_Stadium" title="Aldershot Stadium">Aldershot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashby-de-la-Zouch#Recreation" title="Ashby-de-la-Zouch">Ashby-de-la-Zouch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland_Park_(Ashington)" title="Portland Park (Ashington)">Ashington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Askern_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Askern Greyhound Stadium">Askern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aycliffe_Stadium" title="Aycliffe Stadium">Aycliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartwell,_Buckinghamshire#Greyhound_track" title="Hartwell, Buckinghamshire">Aylesbury (Hartwell)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banbury#Sport" title="Banbury">Banbury</a></li> <li>Barnsley <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dillington_Park_Stadium" title="Dillington Park Stadium">Dillington Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnsley#Sport" title="Barnsley">Old Mill</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pottington_Road_Ground" title="Pottington Road Ground">Barnstaple</a></li> <li>Barrow <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Craven_Park,_Barrow-in-Furness" title="Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness">Craven Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Park,_Roose" title="Little Park, Roose">Little Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barrow_Park_Road_Stadium" title="Barrow Park Road Stadium">Park Road</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barwick,_Somerset#Sport" title="Barwick, Somerset">Barwick</a></li> <li>Bedford <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Park_Football_Ground_(Bedford)" title="Queens Park Football Ground (Bedford)">Nelson Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Bedfordshire#Greyhound_racing" title="Sport in Bedfordshire">Cardington Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Bedfordshire#Greyhound_racing" title="Sport in Bedfordshire">Putnoe Lane</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belmont_Stadium" title="Belmont Stadium">Belmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fremington,_Devon#Sport" title="Fremington, Devon">Bickington</a></li> <li>Bideford <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Sports_Ground,_Bideford" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sports Ground, Bideford">Sports Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shebbertown_Racecourse" title="Shebbertown Racecourse">Shebbertown Racecourse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Stortford#Sports" title="Bishop's Stortford">Bishop's Stortford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westhoughton_Greyhound_Track" title="Westhoughton Greyhound Track">Bolton (Westhoughton)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_Park,_Blackpool" title="Borough Park, Blackpool">Blackpool (Borough Park)</a></li> <li>Boston <ul><li><a href="/wiki/York_Street" title="York Street">Shodfriars Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Sports_Stadium" title="Boston Sports Stadium">Sports Stadium</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ensbury_Park_Racecourse" title="Ensbury Park Racecourse">Bournemouth (Ensbury Park Racecourse)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northampton_International_Raceway" class="mw-redirect" title="Northampton International Raceway">Brafield</a></li> <li>Braintree <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Braintree,_Essex#Sport" title="Braintree, Essex">Coggeshall Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cressing_Road" title="Cressing Road">Cressing Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Braintree,_Essex#Sport" title="Braintree, Essex">Notley Road</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brean_Leisure_Park" title="Brean Leisure Park">Brean Sands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedminster,_Bristol#Sport_and_recreation" title="Bedminster, Bristol">Bristol (Bedminster)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chasewater_Raceway" title="Chasewater Raceway">Brownhills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bunwell#Sport_and_recreation" title="Bunwell">Bunwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Suffolk_Greyhound_Stadium" title="West Suffolk Greyhound Stadium">Bury St Edmunds</a></li> <li>Cambridge <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge#Greyhound_racing" title="Cambridge">Coldham Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambridge#Greyhound_racing" title="Cambridge">Cowper Lane</a></li></ul></li> <li>Carlisle <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle#Greyhound_racing" title="Carlisle">Gillford Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle#Greyhound_racing" title="Carlisle">Harraby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle#Greyhound_racing" title="Carlisle">Sheepmount</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castleford_Sports_Stadium" title="Castleford Sports Stadium">Castleford Sports Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caxton,_Cambridgeshire#Sport" title="Caxton, Cambridgeshire">Caxton</a></li> <li>Chelmsford <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Writtle_Street_Stadium" title="New Writtle Street Stadium">New Writtle St</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chelmsford#Sport" title="Chelmsford">Springfield</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chester_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Chester Greyhound Stadium">Chester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_Sports_Stadium" title="Chesterfield Sports Stadium">Chesterfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleethorpes#Sport" title="Cleethorpes">Cleethorpes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coalville_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Coalville Greyhound Stadium">Coalville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coundon_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Coundon Greyhound Stadium">Coundon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deeping_St_James#Sport" title="Deeping St James">Deeping St James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_and_District_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Dover and District Greyhound Stadium">Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holiday_Park_(Durham)" title="Holiday Park (Durham)">Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earls_Barton_Stadium" title="Earls Barton Stadium">Earls Barton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Shilton#Sport" title="Earl Shilton">Earl Shilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easington_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Easington Greyhound Stadium">Easington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellesmere_Port_Stadium" title="Ellesmere Port Stadium">Ellesmere Port</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ely,_Cambridgeshire#Sport" title="Ely, Cambridgeshire">Ely</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_Ground_Stadium" title="County Ground Stadium">Exeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fakenham_Racecourse#Greyhound_racing" title="Fakenham Racecourse">Fakenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priestfield_Stadium#Other_uses" title="Priestfield Stadium">Gillingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_Moor_Stadium" title="Abbey Moor Stadium">Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton_Road_Stadium" title="Horton Road Stadium">Gloucester (Horton Road)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highgate_Stadium" title="Highgate Stadium">Goldthorpe (Highgate)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gosport#Sport" title="Gosport">Gosport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Houghton_Greyhound_Track" title="Great Houghton Greyhound Track">Great Houghton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartlepool_Stadium" title="Hartlepool Stadium">Hartlepool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebburn#Sport" title="Hebburn">Hebburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinckley_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Hinckley Greyhound Stadium">Hinckley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houghton_Stadium" title="Houghton Stadium">Houghton-le-Spring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craven_Street_Football_Ground" title="Craven Street Football Ground">Hull (Craven Street)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkwood_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Parkwood Greyhound Stadium">Keighley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kempston#Sport_and_leisure" title="Kempston">Kempston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kettering#Other" title="Kettering">Kettering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halfway_Greyhound_Track" title="Halfway Greyhound Track">Kingskerswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Lynn_Stadium" title="King's Lynn Stadium">King's Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knottingley#Sport" title="Knottingley">Knottingley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langley_Mill#Sport" title="Langley Mill">Langley Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leighton_Buzzard#Sport" title="Leighton Buzzard">Leighton Buzzard</a></li> <li>Lincoln <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England#Sport" title="Lincoln, England">Hykeham Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England#Sport" title="Lincoln, England">Rope Walk</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lingfield,_Surrey#Sport_and_leisure" title="Lingfield, Surrey">Lingfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Waltham#Sport" title="Little Waltham">Little Waltham</a></li> <li>London <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battersea_Greyhound_Track" title="Battersea Greyhound Track">Battersea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walthamstow_Stadium#Crooked_Billet" title="Walthamstow Stadium">Crooked Billet</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Origins">Dagenham old</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmonton_Stadium,_London" title="Edmonton Stadium, London">Edmonton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenford_Park_Trotting_Track" title="Greenford Park Trotting Track">Greenford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlington,_London#Sport" title="Harlington, London">Harlington Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitcham_Stadium" title="Mitcham Stadium">Mitcham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foots_Cray#Sport" title="Foots Cray">Sidcup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southall_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Southall Greyhound Stadium">Southall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_Mills_Stadium" title="Temple Mills Stadium">Temple Mills</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welling_Stadium" title="Welling Stadium">London (Welling)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luton_Stadium" title="Luton Stadium">Luton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldon#Sport" title="Maldon">Maldon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield_Woodhouse_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Mansfield Woodhouse Greyhound Stadium">Mansfield Woodhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GER_Sports_Ground" title="GER Sports Ground">March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markfield#Sport" title="Markfield">Markfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melton_Mowbray_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Melton Mowbray Greyhound Stadium">Melton Mowbray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexborough_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Mexborough Greyhound Stadium">Mexborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountnessing#Sport" title="Mountnessing">Mountnessing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newbold_Verdon#Sport" title="Newbold Verdon">Newbold Verdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newhall,_Derbyshire#Sport" title="Newhall, Derbyshire">Newhall (Oversetts Road)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newmarket,_Suffolk#Sport_and_leisure" title="Newmarket, Suffolk">Newmarket</a></li> <li>Newton Abbot <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Abbot_Racecourse" title="Newton Abbot Racecourse">Racecourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Abbot#Sport_and_leisure" title="Newton Abbot">Recreation Ground</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northampton_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Northampton Greyhound Stadium">Northampton</a></li> <li>Norwich <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Firs_Stadium" title="The Firs Stadium">The Firs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorpe_Greyhound_Track" title="Thorpe Greyhound Track">Thorpe</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_City_Stadium_(Nottingham)#Olympic_Grounds" title="White City Stadium (Nottingham)">Nottingham (Olympic)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark,_Peterborough#Sport" title="Newark, Peterborough">Peterborough (Newark)</a></li> <li>Plymouth <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Plymouth#Greyhound_racing" title="Sport in Plymouth">Beacon Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beacon_Park_(Plymouth)" title="Beacon Park (Plymouth)">Beacon Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Plymouth#Greyhound_racing" title="Sport in Plymouth">Devonport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Plymouth#Greyhound_racing" title="Sport in Plymouth">Plymstock</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Pontefract Greyhound Stadium">Pontefract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newington_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Newington Greyhound 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title="Hanley Greyhound Stadium">Stoke-on-Trent (Hanley)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stondon_Massey#Sport" title="Stondon Massey">Stondon Massey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton-in-Ashfield#Sport" title="Sutton-in-Ashfield">Sutton-in-Ashfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swadlincote#Sport" title="Swadlincote">Swandlicote</a></li> <li>Swindon <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Common_Platt_Greyhound_Track" title="Common Platt Greyhound Track">Common Platt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Street_Recreation_Ground" title="Edinburgh Street Recreation Ground">Gorse Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wroughton#Sport" title="Wroughton">North Wroughton</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syston_Sports_Stadium" title="Syston Sports Stadium">Syston</a></li> <li>Taunton <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_Ground,_Taunton" title="County Ground, Taunton">County Ground</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priory_Park_Sports_Ground" title="Priory Park Sports Ground">Priory Park</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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