It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards ( 2, 423 metres ), and is scheduled for early June each year.

By the time that Charles Dickens visited Epsom Downs to view the race in the 1850s, entertainers such as musicians, clowns and conjurers plied their trades and entertained the crowds while others provided other forms of entertainment such as coconut stalls.

This includes four of the five ' Classics ' of Flat racing: The Oaks and The Derby at Epsom Downs and the 2, 000 Guineas and the 1, 000 Guineas, and major National Hunt meetings include the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National at Aintree

Waddon railway station is on the line between West Croydon railway station and Epsom Downs or Sutton.

Belmont railway station on the Sutton to Epsom Downs branchline and the London Victoria to Epsom Downs line.

* 1tph to Epsom Downs

In 1977 he took various parts in the Joint Stock Theatre Company's production of Epsom Downs and in 1979 he starred in Snoo Wilson's The Soul of the White Ant at the Soho Poly.

Southern operates passenger services from London Bridge and London Victoria to Beckenham Junction, Epsom Downs, East Grinstead, Uckfield, Caterham, Tattenham Corner, Horsham, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne and Ore.

The town lies on the chalk downland in the valley of Epsom Downs, and is home to the eponymous racecourse, which holds the world-famous Epsom Derby every year.

Epsom is famous for the Epsom Downs Racecourse which hosts the Epsom Derby ; painting by Théodore Géricault, 1821.

The town is near the world famous Epsom Downs Racecourse which features two of the five English Classic horse races ; the Derby and the Oaks.

Leisure facilities in and around the town include a leisure centre ( the Rainbow Centre ) on East Street ; Epsom Downs Racecourse ; the Odeon cinema ; and the Horton Park Children's Farm.

The station is of historic interest being the arrival point for Queen Victoria and her entourage prior to taking a carriage up to Epsom Downs.

Two other railway lines were built to serve the Epsom Downs Racecourse, with termini at Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner.

* Epsom Downs

* 1tph to Epsom Downs via Norbury

* Little Theatre, Epsom, 1930

Henshall attended the Laine Theatre Arts school in Epsom, Surrey before making her first professional appearance on stage in 1986.

Prior to making her stage debut at the age of 19, Ruthie Henshall trained at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom, Surrey.

Evans studied musical theatre at The Cheshire School of Dance and Drama and moved down South in 1994 to study at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom.

On 6 June 1923, Edgar Wallace became the first British radio sports reporter, when he made a report on the Epsom Derby for the British Broadcasting Company, the newly founded predecessor of the BBC.

The first sports reporter in Great Britain, and one of the first sports reporters in the World, was an English writer Edgar Wallace, who made a report on the Epsom Derby on June 6, 1923 for the British Broadcasting Company.

There have been at least four steamships named SS Wandle, three of which were built for the local Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company.

At stud, she produced only two other foals, but one of these was Fleur who produced the 1977 Epsom Derby winner The Minstrel Nijinsky was a big, powerful horse standing 16. 3 hands high, resembling his dam rather than his sire in stature.

A teenage sensation, he rode his first winner of the Epsom Derby on Never Say Die in 1954 aged 18 years and went on to win eight more, on Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ) and Teenoso ( 1983 ).

* Relkino-won the 1977 Lockinge Stakes and Benson and Hedges Gold Cup as well as being runner-up in the 1976 Epsom Derby

* Epsom Downs ( 1977, stage play )

Lewes district council, Falmer Parish council and the South Downs Joint Committee ( the three main opponents ) announced shortly afterwards that they would not mount a high court challenge.

A production at the Chichester Festival Theatre ( alongside South Downs, a new play written in response to it by David Hare ) marks Rattigan's centenary.

Black-Eyed Susan ; or, All in the Downs, was brought out by manager Robert William Elliston at the Surrey Theatre.

The site nestles in the South Downs and has a variety of facilities including six sports pitches, woods, the Malden Family Theatre, a new library, indoor swimming pool and tennis courts.

William Carey University's Department of Theatre & Communication began in 1915, by Kate Downs P ' Pool, and has garnered a reputation for outstanding work.

The success of Downs career allowed him to get booked into Tony Pastor's New York theater, and to London's Palace Theatre soon after that.

One of Jamaica's soldiers, Sergeant Henry W. Downs of Company I, 8th Vermont Infantry, won the Medal of Honor for bravery under fire.

The school, The Grocers ' Company School, was later handed over to the London County Council and changed its name to Hackney Downs School ; it closed in 1995.

In 1966, Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc. began construction on Dover Downs International Speedway, which was specialized for horse racing and auto racing.

In July 2005, Churchill Downs Incorporated sold the track to the Bay Meadows Land Company for $ 260 million in cash.

* Stagecoach South-Stagecoach controls operations in the South of England through Stagecoach South, comprising Southdown Motor Services Ltd, Hampshire Bus Company Ltd and Stagecoach ( South ) Ltd. Trading names include Stagecoach in Hants & Surrey, Stagecoach in Hampshire, Stagecoach in Portsmouth and Stagecoach in the South Downs.

Felton also purchased two large estates, Murray Downs and Langi Kal Kal in Partnership with merchant and pastoralist Charles Gordon Campbell, a founding partner in Cuming Smith and Company.

In the north-east of the parish on the South Downs lies Lancing College, an independent school, with its imposing, predominantly 19th Century chapel, the largest school chapel in the world, featuring the largest stained-glass rose window in England ( completed in 1977 ).

When von Braun died in June 1977, Hugh Downs became Chairman of the Board and, after a time, Ben Bova assumed the presidency.