School Field Ground is a sports ground owned by Cranbrook School located in the town of Cranbrook, Kent, England. It is known by the school as Big Side Playing Field.Sport @ Cranbrook
Cranbrook School, Kent. Retrieved 2017-12-05. The field, which is in size, and located south of Quaker Lane, is used by the school for

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.Site Summary Sheet: Site 129 Big Side Playing Field adjacent to Quaker Lane and Waterloo Road, Cranbrook
Cranbrook and Sissinghurst Parish Sites, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-05.

Cricket history

The ground has been used as a cricket field since at least the mid 19th century, at which point it was in private hands.Milton H (1979) Kent cricket grounds, in ''The Cricket Statistician'', no.28, December 1979, pp.2–10.

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matches on a ground specifically prepared on the site, one in 1850 and the other in 1851, both against England XIs.Milton H (2020) ''Kent County Cricket Grounds'', p.210. Woking: Pitch Publishing. First-Class Matches played on School Field, Cranbrook
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-05. Kent also played two first-class matches at nearby Swifts Park in 1862–63.Grounds Records in ''Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017'', pp.210–211. Canterbury:

. The ground has been used by the school since the 1940s, including for matches against teams such as MCC. A South African Universities team and a South Africa Schools XI played on the ground in 1967 whilst

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was in operation. In July 1968, Free Foresters played a United States team on the ground.Other matches played on School Field, Cranbrook
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-05.

References

External links

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