Newmarket, town, in Forest Heath District, Suffolk, eastern England. Newmarket has some light industry, but is known as a horseracing and horse training center. Races have been held here since the early 17th century. Devil's Dyke, an Anglo-Saxon defensive mound and ditch, traverses one of the racecourses. Population (1991) 16,498.Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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