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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
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

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

[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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