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Retail<br />
Independent Newmarket<br />
From shopping to hotels, restaurants,<br />
listed buildings and of course the<br />
famous Newmarket Racecourses.<br />
Newmarket is known as The Home<br />
of Horseracing and this year they’re<br />
celebrating an impressive 350 years<br />
of British racing heritage. Not only<br />
is the town home to a large expanse<br />
of horseracing stakeholders, there<br />
are also an abundance of other<br />
independent businesses.<br />
“Newmarket is a fabulous place to<br />
visit. It is the accepted “Home of<br />
Horseracing” in the UK and visitors<br />
can watch the horses working on the<br />
gallops prior to browsing around the<br />
bustling town centre, stopping for<br />
coffee or lunch in one of the many<br />
cafes or restaurants. The new National<br />
Horseracing Museum and Heritage<br />
Centre opens this autumn which is<br />
a multi-million pound development<br />
featuring, not only the best sporting<br />
art in the country, but will also give the<br />
public a chance to get up close to live<br />
racehorses and see displays on its new<br />
four-acre site behind the High Street.<br />
1. Powters<br />
Powters famous Newmarket sausage was born in 1881 and today remains as a familyrun<br />
business, now in their 5th generation. Alongside their wide variety of sausages, this<br />
independent butchers also supply many other local and regional speciality foods and free<br />
range meats. “There are many reasons why people still enjoy shopping at independent<br />
retailers like Powters. For one thing, they appreciate the personal service and advice our<br />
skilled butchers can give; whether it’s about which cuts are most suitable or how to cook<br />
them. Not surprising when you consider that we have been butchers and sausage makers<br />
in the town since the 1880’s!<br />
Our position as makers of the original Newmarket Sausage, and the authenticity of our<br />
unique product, is guaranteed by EU and UK Protected Food Name status. It is one of<br />
only 70 such high quality traditional foods in the whole of the UK, of which only two are<br />
sausages!” Grant Powter, Owner and Managing Director, tells us.<br />
Wellington Street, Newmarket. Tel: 01638 662418. www.powters.co.uk<br />
The ever improving retail offering<br />
will hopefully mean that visitors will<br />
make repeated visits to the town.<br />
In addition, Newmarket now has<br />
its own Newmarket BID (Business<br />
Improvement District) which has<br />
some very ambitious plans to improve<br />
the town even further. <strong>2016</strong>/17 is<br />
certainly a very exciting time to<br />
visit Newmarket,” Mark Edmonson,<br />
Chief Executive at Edmondson Hall<br />
Solicitors and Board Member at the<br />
Newmarket BID.<br />
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<strong>Velvet</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | <strong>September</strong> <strong>2016</strong>
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