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Walworth Common


Walworth Common in Surrey was a cricket venue for important matches in 1730 and 1732. There are no records of important matches on the common after 1732 but a later venue in the area was Aram's New Ground (aka the Bee Hive Ground), the home of Montpelier Cricket Club from 1796.

On Thursday, 16 June 1743, there was a game in which a team from Bermondsey defeated one from Deptford & the King’s Yard by an innings and 27 runs. It was clearly a minor fixture but F. S. Ashley-Cooper explained that Walworth Common was situated where Westmoreland Road, Faraday Street and Mann Street stood in 1900. He said the ground was "about three-quarters of a mile from where Montpelier Cricket Club's Bee Hive Ground afterwards existed".



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