Lamb's Conduit Field
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Lamb's Conduit Field, also known as Lamb's Conduit Fields, was an open area in what is now the London Borough of Camden. The fields lay north of the Lamb's Conduit water feature that gave it its name,
Looking from a wintry Brunswick Square Gardens towards the Brunswick Centre geograph.org.uk 1657693
History of cricket to 1725
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The earliest definite reference to the sport of cricket is dated 17 January 1597 Old Style. It is a deposition in the records of a legal case at Guildford, Surrey, regarding usage of a parcel of land.
Lamb's Conduit Field
…Conduit Field Interactive map of Lamb's Conduit Field Location St Pancras, London Home club London Cricket Club County club Middlesex Establishment by 1707 season Last used 1736 English cricket season Lamb's Conduit Field is known to have been used for matches from 1707. The first match known to have been played…
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond was a leading patron of early cricket.
A view of the Weald, where cricket may have originated
The Royal Grammar School in Guildford (pictured in 2007), where John Derrick was a pupil when he and his friends played creckett c. 1550
Oliver Cromwell was the subject of the earliest definite reference to cricket being played in London. Portrait by Robert Walker (1649).