Lynton & Lynmouth Cricket Club
It’s the most picturesque village cricket ground in the world.
You would do well to find someone who disagrees with that statement. Just look at it.
In only the second stop of our ‘Groundsman’ series, we found ourselves in North Devon, England, visiting the sleepy yet sensational, Lynton & Lynmouth Cricket Club.
Down in South West England, the ground itself is situated, quite literally, between ‘The Valley of Rocks’ on a uniquely flat plain that’s said to have once been a riverbed back before even WG Grace could grow a light stubble.
The clubhouse is perfectly poised in the hillside, atop layers of local laid stone, that proudly looks over the turf which has served as a cricket ground since 1876. One hundred and forty four years of village cricket. It will take more than a global pandemic to put an end to that innings.
Although the standard of cricket played here may not match the excellence of the ground, we wouldn’t want it any other way. Save your 100,000 capacity stadiums and eco-friendly floodlights. Give us heavy slated scoreboards and groans from the scorer as the specialist slip fielder drops another sitter. Village cricket is the purest form of the beautiful game, and Lynton & Lynmouth Cricket Club is the promise land.
Which club do you want to see feature next in ‘The Groundsman’?
