Walworth Common

Walworth Common in Surrey was a cricket venue for important matches in 1730 and 1732.[1][2][3] There are no records of important matches on the common after 1732 but a later venue in the area was Aram's New Ground (aka the Bee Hive Ground), the home of Montpelier Cricket Club from 1796.

On Thursday, 16 June 1743, there was a game in which a team from Bermondsey defeated one from Deptford & the King’s Yard by an innings and 27 runs. It was clearly a minor fixture but F. S. Ashley-Cooper explained that Walworth Common was situated where Westmoreland Road, Faraday Street and Mann Street stood in 1900. He said the ground was "about three-quarters of a mile from where Montpelier Cricket Club's Bee Hive Ground afterwards existed".[4]

References

  1. ↑ Buckley, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Maun, pp. 41–45.
  3. ↑ Leach, John (2007). "From Lads to Lord's – 1730". Stumpsite. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Ashley-Cooper, p. 21.

Bibliography

  • Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1900). At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751. Cricket magazine.
  • Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
  • Maun, Ian (2009). From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978-1-900592-52-9.
  • Leach, John (2008). "Classification of cricket matches from 1697 to 1825". Stumpsite. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011.


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