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View looking SSE over Wetherby Racecourse in West Yorkshire. Check out the weather or try to spot your horse on the course!

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Wetherby is an affluent market town in the county of West Yorkshire, England and is part of the Leeds metropolitan district, but is separate from its urban area, and is closer to Harrogate than it is Leeds, despite having a Leeds postcode. It stands on the River Wharfe, and has been for centuries a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road, being mid-way between London and Edinburgh. Wetherby Bridge, which spans the River Wharfe, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed structureWest Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service. "Wetherby Conservation Area", retrieved on 4 August 2007.. As a result of its situation on the main road, a large number of coaching inns were established in Wetherby, and many are still used today by travellers. The 1086 Domesday Book mentions "Wedrebi" which means "wether-" or "ram-farm". Another meaning is "settlement on the bend of a river". Local folklore has it that when heavy snow storms hit the county, Wetherby does not get as much ... Read more about Wetherby on Wikipedia

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