BARROW (PARK ROAD) 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 greyhound track in the Cumbrian town of Barrow was situated at the Park Road Stadium with grid reference 3° 13' W 54° 9' N and first hosted racing in 1987.

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The grid reference of the track was SD2073 and it operated for 7 years as an independent track before closing its gates for the final time in 1994.
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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=320378&txtYCoord=473770

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 Barrow racecards, badges, results, information, favourite stories or artefacts then email johnslusar@fsmail.net