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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Hambledon Cricket Club
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The most famous club from the early days of *cricket. Hambledon is a village in Hampshire, north of Portsmouth. For a period from the 1760s the village club was a match for all-comers. On their celebrated field, Broadhalfpenny Down (the turf from which was moved in about 1782 to Windmill Down), they even beat teams representing the rest of England. The club's achievements were recorded by John Nyren, son of one of the players, in The Cricketers of My Time (published in The Young Cricketer's Tutor 1833).
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