For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
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.
David Edney, head Butler dons a morning suit "and a smile" every day and has been woking at Goodwood for over 25 years!
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Each room is named after one of the hounds documented in January 1718, including Dido, Ruby and Drummer.
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.
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".
Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
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
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
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.
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”.
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.
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
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
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 iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
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).
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).
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
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.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
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.
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.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
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
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.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
With his pioneering use of colour printing techniques, Brian Cook’s illustrations are ripe for rediscovery by a new generation and they are now being reissued for the publisher Batsford’s 175th anniversary.
Words by Oliver Bennett
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The interwar years are often seen as a time of change; of old rural ways challenged by urban influence and the impending catastrophe of World War II. Perhaps, partly, that’s why the work of illustrator Brian Cook has such emotional resonance. His dust-jackets for Batsford's British town and countryside books, most notably the 1930s Batsford Heritage Series, are now highly collectable and this year, the 175th anniversary of Batsford, they’re being repackaged for a new generation. Cook’s artworks have been reprinted on stationery, postcards and notebooks, and books such as Sussex, Kent and Surrey 1939 by Richard Wyndham, featuring Cook’s cover art, are being reissued.
Cook’s career began in less than glorious fashion at Repton School in Derbyshire where the headmaster told him: “Well, Cook, all I can say about you is that, if nothing else, you have at least learnt to paint.” Driven by this damningly faint praise, in 1928 he attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts and became an illustrator specialising in the UK. His debut, in 1932, was The Villages of England. He went on to produce more than 100 dust jackets for Batsford, the family publishing company begun by his greatgrandfather, Bradley Thomas Batsford, in 1843. Cook’s work put Batsford on the map as he mastered using the new medium of the wraparound dust-jacket as a decorative device. From cluttered offices in Holborn in London, Cook created travel posters and illustrations in his heyday and was rewarded with a directorship of Batsford in 1935.
Then came WWII and for Cook, the RAF. Immediately after the war he changed his surname to Batsford at his uncle Harry’s request, and became chairman of the publishing firm in 1952. The change was timely. By the 1950s his style had grown less fashionable, and by 1958 Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford had become a Conservative MP, holding the Ealing South seat until 1974. That same year he was knighted, adding to a host of other honours including chairmanship of the Royal Society of Arts.
Although he always had fans, to some critics Cook’s style came to seem overly nostalgic. For example, his works have been called “winsome and sentimental” by design writer Stephen Bayley, citing his imagery of “rolling downs, fluffy clouds and church spires”. As with John Betjeman’s poems, they have an evocative, elegiac mood.
But Cook’s illustrations were far more innovative than they might appear now. He pioneered the use of the Jean Berté process, a watercolour printing method that uses soft rubber plates to print inks, similar to Japanese woodblock printing. As Cook recalled, “We decided to make an experiment… The strength or intensity of colour used on the machine could produce a variety of different effects quite unintended in the original drawing.” Hence the dramatic sense of contrast in Cook’s pictures, almost as if he were seeing Britain more intensely.
Indeed, the most sensational aspect of Cook’s work remains his colours – his purple hills, yellow fields and emerald churches, all of a brightness and intensity that has seen him cited as a precursor to Pop Art and Andy Warhol. As the architect and artist Hugh Casson noted in his introduction to the 1987 volume, The Britain of Brian Cook, it would be a mistake “to treat them [Cook’s images] merely as curiosities, for at the time they were in the forefront in the arts and techniques of production and presentation and their young designer was a true pioneer.” Ever the hands-on artist, Cook personally badgered the Batsford printers at the South Bank “so that if the result was unsatisfactory, it was my fault and not theirs”.
As well as professionally, Cook seems to have been restless geographically. He and his wife Wendy, also an artist, lived all over Britain, settling in Rye, looking over the type of landscape he would once have painted. He died in 1989, in nearby Winchelsea, by which time he would have known that his vivid palette and picturesque subject matter was being appreciated anew.
Sussex, Kent and Surrey 1939 by Richard Wyndham, with cover artwork by Brian Cook, will be published in April by Batsford.
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