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William Clarke Opens Trent Bridge Ground — Nottingham, 1838

Nottingham; Trent Bridge

1838-05-30

William Clarke, the Nottingham slow-bowling all-rounder, opened the Trent Bridge cricket ground in late May 1838 on land adjoining the Trent Bridge Inn — the public house he had acquired through marriage in 1837. The ground would become the home of Nottinghamshire cricket and, in time, one of the senior Test venues in England.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#william-clarke

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Trent Bridge Cricket Ground Opens — Nottingham, 1838

Nottinghamshire

1838-05-26

William Clarke laid out a cricket ground on land behind the Trent Bridge Inn at Nottingham in 1838, the year after his marriage to the inn's proprietor, the widow Mary Chapman. The ground hosted its first major match in May 1838 and grew through the nineteenth century into one of cricket's great Test venues — and the only major Test ground in the world founded by a single individual on commercial initiative.

#trent-bridge#william-clarke#nottingham