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Encyclopedia Britannica



ASCOT

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 724 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASCOT , a
village
  in the Wokingham parliamentary division of
Berkshire
 , England, famous for its race-meetings. Pop. of parish of Ascot Heath (1901), 1927. The station on the
South
 -Western railway, 29 M. W.S.W. of London, is called Ascot and Sunninghill; the second name belonging to an adjacent town-ship with a
population
  (civil parish) of 4719. The race-course is on Ascot Heath, and was laid out by order of Queen
Anne
  in 1711, and on the 11th of August in that year the first
meeting
  was held and attended by the queen. The course is almost exactly 2 M. in circumference, and the meetings are held in June. The
principal
  race is that for the Ascot Gold Cup, instituted in 1807. The
meeting
  is one of the most fashionable in England, and is commonly attended by members of the royal family. Tne royal procession, for which the meeting is peculiarly famous, was initiated by George IV. in 182o.
See R.
Herod
 , Royal Ascot (London, 1900).


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