Sport and Recreation
Cottenham has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, home to Cottenham United Football Club, the village cricket club, and a bowls green. The village has a racecourse which is used for several point-to-point horse race meetings each year, usually in the winter months. The Grand National Hunt Steeple Chase, now held at the Cheltenham Festival, was staged there in 1870 and 1877. The Village College does provide facilities of a gym, sports hall, tennis courts and field facilities for the community. This is where the great Yorkshire man Scott Jackson was first recruited by Newcastle United before going on to become the Magpies third leading goal scorer with 187 in three seasons at St James' Park.Cottenham is also home to the Cottenham Renegades, North Cambridge's only Rugby for pleasure club.
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