Editing Newmarket, Suffolk (section)

==Culture and community==
[[File:cmglee_Newmarket_Clock_Tower.jpg|thumb|Newmarket Clock Tower in July 2019]]
[[File:A statue of the Queen in Newmarket, Suffolk.jpg|thumb|A statue of the Queen in Newmarket, Suffolk]]
Newmarket's key role in sport for many centuries has made it a centre for many of Britain's finest sporting painters. The development of painting on [[Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom|sporting]] themes in the early eighteenth century was centred on the Newmarket Racecourse and the three founders of the sporting school, [[John Wootton]], [[James Seymour (artist)|James Seymour]] and [[Peter Tillemans]], painted many scenes of the racecourse and its environs.<ref name=Waterhouse>Ellis Waterhouse, ''Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790'', Baltimore, MD: Penguin, 1953, p. 215. At [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=202884 Painting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128014439/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=202884 |date=28 November 2007 }}{{ISBN?}}</ref> Newmarket is also the setting for some of [[Sir Alfred Munnings]]'s most famous paintings.

The [[Save Historic Newmarket]] group, an organisation dedicated to maintaining the town's unique heritage as the world headquarters of racing, has become increasingly vocal in recent years.<ref name=news>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/6835582/Uncivil-war-shatters-Newmarket-peace-over-Lord-Derbys-housing-plans.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/6835582/Uncivil-war-shatters-Newmarket-peace-over-Lord-Derbys-housing-plans.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Uncivil war shatters Newmarket peace over Lord Derby's housing plans | first=Paul | last=Kelso | date=18 December 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The group, composed of local residents, supports sustainable development in the town and aims to make Newmarket a more attractive destination for visitors.