Newmarket (Suffolk)

Newmarket is a town in Suffolk, England.

Understand
Newmarket is a small market town in west Suffolk, between Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds. It is most well known for its horses - it is the headquarters of the Jockey Club that oversees British horseracing, as well as the home of the National Horseracing Museum and the National Stud.

Also nearby is the USAF air base at Lakenheath.

Road
Newmarket is on the A14 and A11 main routes. 14 miles (22 km) from Cambridge and 17 miles (25 km) from Bury St Edmunds on the A14 main road. 50 miles from Norwich and 17 miles from the M1 motorway on the A11 main road.

Bus
Newmarket Rookery Bus Station has regular services to Cambridge, Ely and Bury St Edmunds with Stagecoach

Local busses around the villages, and to towns like Mildenhall, are found on Traveline East Anglia.

National Express coaches stop on the High St, outside KFC/Palmers. These services run to London every 5 hours, as well as to Norwich and the London airports (Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick ) every 2 hours.

Rail
For longer distance services, connections are available at Cambridge for Stansted Airport, London King's Cross, London Liverpool St, the Midlands and the North, or towards Ipswich you can change at Stowmarket for Norwich.

By bicycle
The town is on National Cycle Route 51 running Oxford to Colchester, through Bury St Edmunds & Ipswich to the E and through Cambridge to the W. National Cycle Route 51 connects with National Cycle Route 11 a few miles NW of the town.

Get around
The town is small enough to walk around.

Do

 * Go to the races at

Eat
Try a Newmarket pork sausage.

Connect
Newmarket has 4G from all UK carriers. As of Sept 2022, 5G has not reached this area.

Go next

 * Cambridge
 * Bury St Edmunds
 * Thetford and Thetford Forest
 * Ely