Could this be the old Starcross Racecourse?

William Morgan would please like opinions about the site of The Stsrcross Racecourse. for his second book about the history of racecourses.. 

William has discovered that the 1863 course was on land in the occupation of John and Thomas Haydon of Staplake and 5 minutes from the station (in 1865). His research on Google Earth demonstrates that the area is " pretty flat " and he suggests that the course  would be 6 furlongs round, positioned as shown on this map. He asks "How does this seem to you?"

 

Celebration of Country Life

The group who organised the Past and Present festival, which led to the formation of Starcross History, have followed up with this event. 

All who lived and worked in the vanished Royal Western Counties Hospital will be remembered when they hold the service of dedication for their new Memorial Garden, which is within the patients' cemetery at St Paul's Church.

Greetings from Starcross

Thankyou again Steve Nosworthy for these shots of The Atmospheric Railway Hotel, the front street with the topiaried Yew trees, New Road with a shop opposite the Assembly Rooms?? a shrubbery in front of the hospital?? and a market??
Please can anyone correct or add to these descriptions?

Sailing the River Exe from Starcross Yacht Club in a Vintage Fireball Dinghy

More old photos of Starcross Railway Station

Thankyou Steve Nosworthy for these 3 great old photos of Starcross Railway Station

Starcross Railway Station 50s photograph

Judging by the trusty old Morris van, this photograph of Starcross Railway Station was taken in the 50s. It doesn't look as though the roof across the rails is there. When was that roof knocked down?

If anyone knows who holds the copyright to this marvellous photo, please let us know. And if you have photographs of old Starcross, please allow us to publish them here.
Thankyou.

Archi, the Historical Search Hound, sniffs out 170 Archaeological sites

archiuk.com  is the online resource which details everything to do with finding history around us: digging up stuff; examining the remains of old buildings; or analysing any physical evidence of previous human occupancy. Here's what Archi, its Historical Search Hound, has unearthed within 10 km of Starcross.

Visit http://www.archiuk.com to see more details.

• If you'd like to investigate any of these, or you are able to tell Starcross History anything about them, please comment below. 

British Archaeological sites, Ancient History, Historical Places and Metal Detecting finds around SX9781 Ancient History of Starcross, Devon, British National Grid Reference: SX9781; E-N: 297000 081000; Decimal Latitude/Longitude: 50.619580, -3.457347

Archi the Historical Search Hound has found 170 archaeological and historical sites within 10 km of your search area SX9781 Ancient History of Starcross, Devon, British National Grid Reference: SX9781; E-N: 297000 081000; Decimal Latitude/Longitude: 50.619580, -3.457347. These sites consist of: 39 roman sites, 18 iron age sites, 24 bronze age sites, 58 medieval sites, 3 post-medieval sites, 5 mesolithic sites, 2 neolithic sites, 8 unclassified ancient sites, 3 unclassified historic sites, 8 industrial sites, 1 modern sites, 1 norman sites,

Many thanks to Chris the webmaster for allowing this information, and Archi the dog,  to be copied from the archiuk website.