For some reason I feel the need to share my favourite cricket spot with you

Well I would if I could get it right. Hang on chaps

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It's Eversholt in Bedfordshire. You swim in the open air pool then lie lie outside on a grassy slope overlooking the cricket field to eat your picnic with maybe a G and T, or a glass of Pimms to wash down the Waitrose goodies.

Aside from Hook Norton, mentioned on the other thread we're not allowed to drift off-topic (I was impressed with the crawlingness of my last post on there...) my favourite cricket spot is probably Minster Lovell, also in Oxfordshire, near Witney. The Swan Inn is a very fine hostelry. A short walk across the road gets you to the cricket ground. One boundary is marked by the river - a fishing net on a long pole is required to retrieve enthusiastically-struck sixes from the Windrush as it meanders from midwicket to long on. Despite strictly-worded notices to the contrary, local kids leap merrily from the road bridge into the river below.

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OH used to live in Minster Lovell, nice village, was the Swan the one on the main road to Witney? When OH bought his house there was Guinea pig farm near by, due to local opposition, it was closed down and house prices soared overnight. Just in time for OH to sell up and move North....

I used to live in Banbury, so I know Hook Norton (Hooky to the locals well) and the brewery well.

Do you talk like that in real life?

I don't know that the Swan (or it may actually be the Old Swan) is on the main road to anywhere... go over the bridge by the cricket field and turn right, is where it is in my mind's eye!

Minster Lovell's a lovely village. I was only ever a visitor, as a child watching a team my dad turned out for occasionally, and equally occasionally as a student with a college team.

Me too - I was born in Banbury, lived there till I was 18 before moving to Mississippi, back to Dorset (via many moves) and then on to Calgary

J

I was trying to be all Test Match Special - going for a cross between John Arlott and Brian Johnston waxing lyrical about anything except the actual cricket. Especially that bit about the river meandering from midwicket to long on - I was rather pleased with that.

OOOh I used to love cycling to The Trout for lunch . . .

Back in blighty I played at a beautiful ground at West Wycombe, which was part of Lord Dashwood's estate. First time visitors were often very jealous that we played somewhere so picturesque.

http://tinyurl.com/2fsdxk4 Google map view

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mypiece...ace/179884455/ Photo of the ground.

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