Longparish Cricket Club

The beautiful little village of Longparish nestles in the picturesque valley of the river Test in the shade of Harewood Forest in North-West Hampshire. It is one of those places that you would not just pass through on your way somewhere else. Should you happen up on it by accident you would consider yourself very blessed. However there are many who come here for one reason alone, they are the lovers of cricket.

Cricket has been played in Longparish since the 1870s with the first recorded game played on Friday July 19th 1878 between Longparish Married and Longparish Single.

Games then were 12-a-side and either country house sponsored or local affairs on days when teams could be mustered. The cricket club at Longparish that we know today was inaugurated on 3 May 1886 and has had quite a history, although there had been a club within the village since June 1885. It is moving to look through the score books and club minute books of the time to see the links with the past in the names like Ball, Snow and Neale, families who all have interests in the club today.