Common Platt Greyhound Track

Location| Purton Road, Common Platt, near Purton, Swindon, Wiltshire
Coordinates| 51°34′52″N 1°50′28″W﻿ / ﻿51.58111°N 1.84111°W﻿ / 51.58111; -1.84111
Opened| 1960s
Closed| 1970s

Common Platt Greyhound Track was a greyhound racing track on Purton Road, Common Platt, near Purton, Swindon, England.[1]

The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sport's governing body, the National Greyhound Racing Club) and the venue was known as a "flapping" track which was the nickname given to independent tracks. The location of the track was behind the Foresters Arms public house (now Casa Paolo) on the B4553.[2]

The track was opened sometime in the late 1960s. Race day was Saturday evening at 6.30pm and the circumference of the track was 440 yards. It was a simple all-grass track with a 'MacWhirter' hare system and race distances of 375, 525 and 600 yards.[3]

The track closed during the 1970s.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "OS Plan 1970". old-maps.co.uk.
2. ^ "SWINDON (COMMON PLATT) GREYHOUND STADIUM". Greyhound Derby.com.
3. ^ Furby, R (1968). Independent Greyhound Racing. New Dominion House. p. 61.
4. ^ Barnes, Julia (1988). Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File. Ringpress Books. p. 413\. ISBN 0-948955-15-5.

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