A History of Oxted & Limpsfield Cricket Club
  1. Two Hundred Not Out and still Batting !
  2. A Limpsfield love affair
  3. Before 1850
  4. Early First Class Cricketers : William Martingell and Charles Payne
  5. The MacNivens of Perrysfield
  6. 1850-1900
  7. Limpsfield - A High Street of Cricketers
  8. The Brasier's of Limpsfield
  9. A Memorable Innings from Evelyn Marmaduke Leveson-Gower
  10. HDG Leveson Gower
  11. Before you in the order - The Cricket “Giants” at Limpsfield
  12. Oxted's Cricketing Corinthians
  13. 1901-1950
  14. Neville Knox, Surrey & England
  15. Reverend Marten’s Catch
  16. Leonard Moulding : Headmaster and Cricketer
  17. Strolling out from Limpsfield
  18. The Limpsfield Cricketer , the Actor and the Plot to kill Churchill (The Mystery of BOAC Flight 777)
  19. 1951-2000
  20. Tony Lock - Limpsfield, Surrey and England
  21. The Case of Errol Holmes and the Friendly Antipodeans
  22. "The Gaffer" of Limpsfield - by EM "Ted" Rose
  23. The Memories of John Davies
  24. Ted Rose's Limpsfield Jottings
  25. 3 Oxted Cricketing Legends (George Jarrett remembers)
  26. Gruesome Gesticulation, and crafty 24-yarders : George Jarrett remembers.... Norman Higgs and Vic Farmer
  27. When Imran Khan didn't play for Limpsfield : George Jarrett remembers...
  28. George Jarrett Remembers...The Sherjan Brothers - Limpsfield's Bowling Stalwarts
  29. 2001-Present
  30. Cricket across Four Generations : The Powell Family
  31. From Over There to Over Here : Some of our Overseas Players
  32. The Battle of Crockham Hill
  33. In Memoriam .... Those who have been finally given out
  34. In Memoriam - David Adamson 29 December 1939 to 6 October 2021
  35. In Memoriam - Les Brown (27 November 1936 – 28 January 2021)
  36. In Memoriam : Richard Gracey (with thanks to Ted Rose)
  37. In Memoriam : Nick Heroys (with thanks to Ted Rose)
  38. In Memoriam - Colin Smith
  39. Comments and additional notes
A History of Oxted & Limpsfield Cricket Club
  1. Two Hundred Not Out and still Batting !
  2. A Limpsfield love affair
  3. Before 1850
  4. Early First Class Cricketers : William Martingell and Charles Payne
  5. The MacNivens of Perrysfield
  6. 1850-1900
  7. Limpsfield - A High Street of Cricketers
  8. The Brasier's of Limpsfield
  9. A Memorable Innings from Evelyn Marmaduke Leveson-Gower
  10. HDG Leveson Gower
  11. Before you in the order - The Cricket “Giants” at Limpsfield
  12. Oxted's Cricketing Corinthians
  13. 1901-1950
  14. Neville Knox, Surrey & England
  15. Reverend Marten’s Catch
  16. Leonard Moulding : Headmaster and Cricketer
  17. Strolling out from Limpsfield
  18. The Limpsfield Cricketer , the Actor and the Plot to kill Churchill (The Mystery of BOAC Flight 777)
  19. 1951-2000
  20. Tony Lock - Limpsfield, Surrey and England
  21. The Case of Errol Holmes and the Friendly Antipodeans
  22. "The Gaffer" of Limpsfield - by EM "Ted" Rose
  23. The Memories of John Davies
  24. Ted Rose's Limpsfield Jottings
  25. 3 Oxted Cricketing Legends (George Jarrett remembers)
  26. Gruesome Gesticulation, and crafty 24-yarders : George Jarrett remembers.... Norman Higgs and Vic Farmer
  27. When Imran Khan didn't play for Limpsfield : George Jarrett remembers...
  28. George Jarrett Remembers...The Sherjan Brothers - Limpsfield's Bowling Stalwarts
  29. 2001-Present
  30. Cricket across Four Generations : The Powell Family
  31. From Over There to Over Here : Some of our Overseas Players
  32. The Battle of Crockham Hill
  33. In Memoriam .... Those who have been finally given out
  34. In Memoriam - David Adamson 29 December 1939 to 6 October 2021
  35. In Memoriam - Les Brown (27 November 1936 – 28 January 2021)
  36. In Memoriam : Richard Gracey (with thanks to Ted Rose)
  37. In Memoriam : Nick Heroys (with thanks to Ted Rose)
  38. In Memoriam - Colin Smith
  39. Comments and additional notes
Limpsfield - A High Street of Cricketers
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7. Limpsfield - A High Street of Cricketers


Residents of Limpsfield are surely grateful to the work of Kay Percy OBE for her work in detailing the History of the ancient Village of Limpsfield – particularly her book ‘Limpsfield Explored’ (1975) which brings life to the many dwellings connected to or bearing the family name of local Cricketing characters.

I have often thought that it would be possible to write a page or two on the Cricketing households of Limpsfield High Street and the attaching press cutting provides many names that can be easily matched to properties in the Village to this day .

This article is taken from qa 1936 article in the Westerham Courier entitled “Well known Cricketers of Limpsfield”

"The only Limpsfield Cricketer still in the village is Mr Harry Keeler and he recalls that because the 1865 match was played in August, some of the regular players were not in the side.

Mr Keeler, who is the Limpsfield tailor, had a long cricketing career and was also a footballer and a runner. He started in his early ‘teens and was good with the bat and in the field and also as a bowler. After the last war, he helped to revive the Club and was captain for several seasons.

Dr W.P. Wynne, who captained the 1895 side, was in practice in the village and built Brambletye, where Dr G.D.Laing, also a prominent sportsman, now resides.
George Loveland and John Brasier were both builders and both died in 1932. Mr Loveland was a deceptive left hand bowler and was a trial to many famous cricketers in matches on Limpsfield Common : the great “WG” once said of him “I don’t want any more of him”.

Mr Brasier played regularly for the Club until he was 70, and after he was 50 made a new reputation as a wicket keeper.

Mr Ambrose Boyson lived in the Manor House and Mr Hardy was his Butler. Mr N Hudson, a chicken farmer, lived at the Bowling Green on the Common and allowed the Club to use part of his house as a Pavilion, a use to which the premises (now the British Legion Club) are still put today.

Jim and Jack Bannister were brothers, and like the Skinners and Jells of Godstone, were excellent cricketers. Jim Bannister, who was a very good bat, was at one time on the ground staff at Oxford when Mr H.D.G. Leveson-Gower was at the University : his brother was afterwards Groundsman at Oxted.

Mr Jack Webster was in business in the Village and Mr A.G. Avanal was apprenticed to Mr Keeler.."

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