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Fontwell Park Racecourse is a horse racing course located in the village of Fontwell in West Sussex, England. It features a figure-of-eight chase course and an oval hurdles course. It was the course where Queen Elizabeth II had her first winner as an owner when Monaveen won the Chichester Handicap Chase there in October 1949[1]. In 1984 John Francome rode his 1,036th career winner at Fontwell Park, passing Stan Mellor's record for a National Hunt jockey - Francome's record has subsequently been beaten. The course has been under the ownership of Northern Racing since 2002. Construction work on a new £6.5m Grandstand in the Premier Enclosure started in July 2009. It will open in August 2010. Walberton is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is located five miles (8 km) to the north-west of Littlehampton, and is situated south of the A27 road. Located on the southernmost slopes of the South Downs the civil parish covers an area of 1,044.19 hectares (2,580.2 acres) and has a population of 1941 persons (2001 census), and also includes the villages of Binsted to the east and Fontwell to the west. St Mary's parish church in Walberton has a Saxon font and west wall. There is a pub in Walberton The Holly Tree. Towards the end of the village there is a small village pond where children are quite often seen feeding the ducks. Binsted has a pub, the Black Horse and a Norman church built in 1140 A.D. by the monks of Tortington Priory. Roman and medieval pottery and tile kilns have been excavated there. The Avisford Park Hotel, with its golf course which lies between Walberton and Binsted, was formerly Avisford, a Prep School for Roman Catholic boys, where BBC presenter Edward Stourton was head boy and where the late Robert Nairac spent a year teaching before university in the late 60's.
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