Welcome to the Whaley Bridge Cricket Club website.

This is a new project to complement our new ground and forward vision for the club.
Records of Whaley Bridge Cricket Club go back well into the 1800’s. It is clear from local press reports that cricket was organised in Whaley Bridge in the 1870’s by the Wesleyan Church and the Mechanics Institute. A search through other websites also reveals diary entries of a gentleman making note of the fact he was going to play cricket at Whaley Bridge as long ago as 1865.
The ground at Horwich Park is mentioned in records as being the home to football and cricket for Whaley Bridge from 1883 onwards. It remained the home of Whaley Bridge Cricket Club up until September 2005, when on Sunday 18th September 2005 the last game was played at the ground.
New Horwich Park became our home with the commencement of the 2006 season.
Over the years a great number of players have graced the turf, particularly at Horwich Park. The club was one of the founder members of the Derbyshire and Cheshire Cricket League which is now sponsored by Peak Sports.

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The Club’s move, some 200 yards down the road, has its roots back in 1989 when Club Members realised the existing Pavilion and facilities were no longer adequate.
Discussions with regard to improvements were underway when our then Chairman, I.B.Wild, died very suddenly.
Immediately members expressed the desire to build a new pavilion in I.B’s memory, however, in order to obtain funding etc. an extension to the lease was required and long years of negotiation and fund raising commenced.
The Landlord ultimately was not willing to sell and just when consideration to a further long term lease were being considered a 6 acre site only 200 yards down Horwich Road was offered to the Club.
In 2003, after various planning applications and appearances before the High Peak Borough Council Planning Committee, work commenced on levelling, draining and landscaping the new site.
The new ground was nurtured by Groundsmen Tony Holden and Chris Smith throughout 2004 and in 2005 the construction of the new pavilion commenced.
Thanks to the generosity of sponsors who supplied materials, the local tradesmen who worked on the site and the members who gave their time, progress was swift. The external shell was completed in three months and the internal fixtures and fittings installed through the winter so that in April 2006 the new season started “New Horwich Park” and the grand opening of the I.B.Wild Memorial Pavilion took place.
Our thanks were expressed to all those who made the project possible and gave of their time, effort and monies.
The result of that is that the new permanent Cricket Ground is in place where lovers of Cricket will forever be welcome.
We hope that what can be seen at New Horwich Park is a glimpse of the future and an opportunity for the coming generations of young cricketers to learn to love the game.

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