Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
David Edney, head Butler dons a morning suit "and a smile" every day and has been woking at Goodwood for over 25 years!
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
A huge variety of glassware is available for each wine, all labelled by grape type to give the best flavour profile.
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
Goodwood Motor Circuit was officially opened in September 1948 when Freddie March, the 9th Duke and renowned amateur racer, tore around the track in a Bristol 400
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
Just beyond Goodwood House along the Hillclimb, the 2nd Dukes banqueting house was also known as "one of the finest rooms in England" (George Vertue 1747).
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Fifty years have passed since the Beatles released Abbey Road , yet fans still flock to that fabled north London zebra crossing to recreate the album’s cover – which became the focus of a bizarre conspiracy theory
Words by Will Hodgkinson
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It is a cover image so iconic, you can visit the zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios in St John’s Wood at any time and you’ll be sure to find four tourists irritating drivers by recreating it. Abbey Road was once just a dull residential street in an upscale part of Northwest London. Now it is forever associated with The Beatles’ penultimate album, recorded after Let It Be but released before it… although it very nearly wasn’t the case.
The original title for Abbey Road was “Everest”, named after sound engineer Geoff Emerick’s brand of cigarettes. There were plans to shoot the band at the foot of Mount Everest, but no one could be bothered to travel to Nepal so Paul McCartney sketched up a concept that involved shooting them outside their regular studio instead. John Kosh, the art director of their record label, Apple, had the idea of featuring The Beatles without album title or band name. By 1969, he said, everyone knew what they looked like. And so, at 11.35am on August 8, photographer Iain Macmillan was given 10 minutes to complete the shoot.
He stood on a stepladder while police held up the traffic.
Perhaps the image would not have been so universally, instantly impactful had it not been fuel for the “Paul Is Dead” conspiracy theory bouncing around American college campuses at the time. McCartney (or rather, his double) holding a cigarette in his right hand when he was left-handed and being barefoot, Lennon dressed in white and therefore leading a funeral procession, and the number plate of a VW Beetle – 28IF – supposedly McCartney’s age if he were alive (even though he was actually 27), were all taken as signs of McCartney’s death.
Paul died in a car crash in 1966, the theory claimed, and the Abbey Road cover featured a lookalike. In fact, McCartney had been out of view because The Beatles were splitting up, he was estranged from his bandmates, and he was trying to recover some semblance of normality with his young family on a farm in Scotland. So fervent was Beatles obsession in 1969, however, that every aspect of Abbey Road ’s cover was mined for symbolism.
Why does it work? Perhaps it’s the juxtaposition of the four most remarkable young men in the world crossing an unremarkable road on a sunny day in London. Most of all though, it’s the simplicity of the photograph, which has been copied by everyone from Booker T. & the M.G.’s to The Red Hot Chili Peppers to an unending stream of tourists. The music’s pretty good too.
This article was taken from the Autumn 2019 edition of the Goodwood Magazine.
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