Datchet Common
Location | Datchet, Berkshire |
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Home club | Berkshire |
Establishment | c.1769 |
Last used | c.1790 |
Datchet Common near Datchet in the English county of Berkshire (formerly Buckinghamshire) was used as a cricket venue for matches between 1730 and 1785.[1]
It is first recorded in October 1730 when a match was played "by persons of distinction for £50 a side".[2] This match is the earliest known mention of cricket in the county of Buckinghamshire.[3]
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English cricket venues (1726–1770)
- Addington Hills
- Artillery Ground
- Barnes Common
- Barrack Field
- Blackheath
- Bourne Paddock
- Broadhalfpenny Down
- Bromley Common
- Caterham Common
- Charlwood
- Chelsea Common
- Chislehurst Common
- Cow Meadow
- Datchet Common
- Dripping Pan
- Ealing Common
- Epping Forest
- Gray's Inn
- Guildford Bason
- Horsmonden
- Ilford
- Kew Green
- Laleham Burway
- Mickleham Down
- Parsons Green
- Putney Heath
- Sanderstead Common
- Stansted Park
- Tothill Fields
- Uxbridge Moor
- Vine Cricket Ground
- Walworth Common
- Westerham Common
- Woburn Park
- Woolpack, Islington
51°29′N 0°34′W / 51.48°N 0.57°W / 51.48; -0.57
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