Hornchurch Cricket Club is based in Hornchurch

Hornchurch

Hornchurch is a large suburban town in England, and part of the London Borough of Havering. Hornchurch is in North-East London .It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan. It comprises a number of shopping...

, Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

 and was established in 1783. The club had several good players and for the next ten years it was representative of Essex

Essex county cricket teams

Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being...

 as a county, the club's name sometimes being interchangeable with that of the county in first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 scorecards.

Essex cricket faded during the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of wars declared against Napoleon's French Empire by opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionised European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly due to...

 and Hornchurch played only minor matches from 1794.

Hornchurch CC today runs six Saturday teams of which five compete in the Essex Premier League

Essex Premier League

The Essex Premier League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Essex, England. The league was founded in 1972, and since 1999 has been a designated ECB Premier League.-Winners:-External links:* - official site...

 and two Sunday teams as well as various colts teams. Its home ground is at Harrow Lodge Park, adjacent to Langton Gardens on the site of Langton Park

Langton Park

Langton Park was a first-class cricket ground in Hornchurch, Essex. Surrounding Langton's House, built in the 18th century , the park was the home of Hornchurch Cricket Club and was a major venue from 1785 to 1793...

 where Hornchurch played in the 18th century.

The club takes its responsibilities to provide coaching very seriously and runs a community scheme called "Cricket for All" on Mondays during the summer.

External sources

• Hornchurch Cricket Club
• From Lads to Lord's; The History of Cricket: 1300 – 1787

Further reading

• G B Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
• Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians....
  
  , Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862
• H T Waghorn
  H T Waghorn
  Henry Thomas Waghorn , was a cricket statistician and historian. He is best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: The Dawn of Cricket and Cricket Scores: 1730 - 1773....
  
  , The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906