NEHL - A racecourse was found on the outskirts on Consett from the 1860s until at least the 1890s. It was situated at Carribees farm, a small outpost on Delves Lane (a section of the lane is still called Carribees). Greyhoundderby.com cites a first racecourse skirting the Stockton & Darlington Railway, though it is hard to support this through contemporary maps. Races continued until the 1890s, with the Newcastle Journal reporting on an important race at the "Carribees Course" with a large muster of spectators. It is unlikely the course lasted into the 20th century, and regular meetings were likely to have ceased by this point also.

The 1890s Ordnance Survey map does not explicitly show a racecourse, though there is a site of interest near Carribees plantation with a small building and what looks like a small fenced lane where Douai Drive is today.