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Earliest Documented Cricket at Charterhouse School — 1835

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1835-07-10

The earliest documented cricket match at Charterhouse School — then on its London Smithfield site — was an inter-form fixture played in the summer of 1835. Charterhouse cricket had been informal through the late eighteenth century; the 1835 match is the earliest with surviving documentation in the school's records. Charterhouse would, by the late nineteenth century, become a notable cricketing school.

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Earliest Documented Cricket at Christ's Hospital School — 1831

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1831-06-25

The earliest documented cricket match at Christ's Hospital School — the historic 'Bluecoat' charity school in central London — was a house fixture played in the summer of 1831. Cricket had been informal at Christ's Hospital from the late eighteenth century; the 1831 match is the earliest preserved with a full account in the school's surviving records.

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Eton's Upper Club Ground Formally Organised — 1829

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1829-05-12

In May 1829 Eton College formally organised its Upper Club ground — the principal cricket field of the school — with a dedicated committee, paid groundsman and fixed boundary. The reorganisation marked Eton's transition from informal to fully institutional school cricket and is the foundation entry of the modern Upper Club tradition.

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Earliest Documented Cricket at Stonyhurst College — Lancashire, 1821

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1821-06-15

In June 1821 Stonyhurst College in Lancashire — the leading Catholic public school in England — held its earliest documented cricket match, a house fixture between Higher Line and Lower Line. The match marks the arrival of cricket at Stonyhurst and is the earliest documented major-school cricket fixture in northern England.

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