BRAINTREE (CRESSING) 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 Essex town of Braintree had 3 greyhound tracks in the past, the last of which was located around the perimeter of the local football club pitch on Cressing Road with reference 0° 34' E 51° 52' N.

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The independent track opened in 1967.
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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=577211&txtYCoord=222763

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