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A History of the County of Sussex
… Warnham apparently ceased to be used. 67 Annual athletic sports were held in the parish in 1902 and 1903. 68 In 1981 there were clubs for football and many other sports; at the same date there were a cricket ground and …
Warpsgrove
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… one was excavated in 1975. 17 May Day customs and village sports on the green, still kept up in the 1790s, had been … villages. 23In the 1880s those shows and their associated sports attracted many visitors from Cambridge. By 1894 they …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… wonder; it abounds with comforts. His attachment to field sports may six him frequently here: if domestic happiness in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… cock fighting continued until the 19th century, but cruel sports did not flourish as in the coalfield. 11 Bowls were … for a time and a cricket club. 19 In 1856 the old rowdy sports seemed 'unworthy of the enlightenment of the age' and … (founded 1850) 21 began its annual show and athletic sports. 22 Wellington Town football club, formed in 1879, had …
A History of the County of Essex
… and societies. T. D. Daniell presented the adjacent 4-a. sports field to the parish in 1939. 78 A tennis club met next … field lay immediately west of Daniell's brewery. 80 Sports clubs in 1995 provided for football, cricket, indoor …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 4 the substitution from 1837 of gymnastics and 'rural' sports at the wake brought the pastime to an end. 5 Cocking, … in the parish in 1574, and dog-fighting were popular sports in the 1850s. 6 Some traditional festivities were … Green with accommodation for 70 residents and a large sports hall. 71 Reeves, West Bromwich, 140-1; Staffs. …