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Petworth Petworth is a small town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Chichester (district), Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is located at the junction of the A272 road, A272 east–west road from Heathfield, East Sussex ...
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Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
was used as the venue for three
first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
matches between 1824 and 1826.Petworth Park
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The ground was in front of the main house, before the cricket ground was moved to its current location nearby at
Petworth Park New Ground Petworth Park New Ground is a cricket ground in the shadow of Petworth House, Petworth, Sussex. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1844, when Petworth Cricket Club played the Marylebone Cricket Club in the first first-class match he ...
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1785 establishments in England Petworth Cricket grounds in Sussex Defunct cricket grounds in England Defunct sports venues in West Sussex English cricket venues in the 18th century History of Sussex Sports venues completed in 1785 {{England-cricket-ground-stub