Gumley's cricket field

a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpr7ZFUc24LDrUi9KZ7KXKlxJWgM_usYfcGvq5PxSaVNI5pzJJLFKV0Sz3gI_5Hyf4qyZc8KdmuH7ne3gs2dCPHKaKQ94KrrcPjlcip4KvrvaAj1hW3zLbKJK3bI6zZx5Xf8X3KsCyW-7/s1600-h/gumley5.jpg"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368801361785136578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqpr7ZFUc24LDrUi9KZ7KXKlxJWgM_usYfcGvq5PxSaVNI5pzJJLFKV0Sz3gI_5Hyf4qyZc8KdmuH7ne3gs2dCPHKaKQ94KrrcPjlcip4KvrvaAj1hW3zLbKJK3bI6zZx5Xf8X3KsCyW-7/s400/gumley5.jpg" //aAt the top of a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/08/contradictions-of-gumley.html"Gumley village/a the road curves around the mysterious mound and then takes you to one of my favourite cricket grounds.br /br /It stands in open country with a single farmhouse in sight and merges into the surrounding fields. The fence most in evidence is the electric one keeping livestock off the square. That, as I remarked to a member of the family group who were playing on the outfield as he stepped gingerly over it to retrieve the ball, is not something you see on many cricket grounds.br /br /To the south are open views across the Welland valley to the Northamptonshire Uplands. It reminds me very much of David Inshaw's a href="http://www.redraggallery.co.uk/showInventoryHQ.asp?iId=4389amp;title=Cricket" artist="David""Cricket Match III"/a, but I gather that print shows Little Bredy in Dorset.br /br /From the picture above you have probably concluded that Gumley is a pleasant rural ground and a rather better appointed one than most villages boast because it has sightscreens. But there is more to it than that.br /br /Gumley's cricket field shares the top of the hill with the village war memorial. And there is a road across the outfield, cutting off the square from the pavilion. I gather it is the done thing to wait until the end of an over if you want to use it.br /br /It struck me that the ground at Bonkers Hall must be very like this.br /br /And then I wished that a car would come along to allow me to take a photograph to show the road and the wicket. When it turned up, I felt very close to Bonkers Hall indeed.br /br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyvWYtAp5S1xf_NvXEUQY_5DNnJY_onUU_qVBJsLHE64C4xsixNAa1G2xXs4R0Q3kVdeuC3Emv05gUfbuitd8aT-PTdTPxHuDBCX-IbYTjqs-PoVvNm-QSKa0UFIfodvxEL_0QhRmLz4s/s1600-h/gumley8.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368800381491519778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyvWYtAp5S1xf_NvXEUQY_5DNnJY_onUU_qVBJsLHE64C4xsixNAa1G2xXs4R0Q3kVdeuC3Emv05gUfbuitd8aT-PTdTPxHuDBCX-IbYTjqs-PoVvNm-QSKa0UFIfodvxEL_0QhRmLz4s/s320/gumley8.jpg" //a a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwE1NKySd1Qv17bEmOtMHzoMkh2vTi3CP664V-fOGFI9zPdTH3KFZAZxyAnC83Ly0LwZlg3xVZRtjfSgTK1OwopMpTZ3meo6A5Yp2FbVeDipF789qldxrg-i4mdaivWVcKxz9VH_8xv1HC/s1600-h/gumley6.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368800371454922114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwE1NKySd1Qv17bEmOtMHzoMkh2vTi3CP664V-fOGFI9zPdTH3KFZAZxyAnC83Ly0LwZlg3xVZRtjfSgTK1OwopMpTZ3meo6A5Yp2FbVeDipF789qldxrg-i4mdaivWVcKxz9VH_8xv1HC/s320/gumley6.jpg" //a a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCUMkbH4JafU8cmoUc4cvkqNwcI-SRv8FVSPifig1gmhTYfkH6_UnAmZBbHAywks2yDURul6BGolLsH49ORs99qpGR2PUMxBcmgBF2VyWBk0VUO3hMRHCrJARCny6yLn1V4Wk8QdCR_fC/s1600-h/gumley7.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368800622306867858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCUMkbH4JafU8cmoUc4cvkqNwcI-SRv8FVSPifig1gmhTYfkH6_UnAmZBbHAywks2yDURul6BGolLsH49ORs99qpGR2PUMxBcmgBF2VyWBk0VUO3hMRHCrJARCny6yLn1V4Wk8QdCR_fC/s320/gumley7.jpg" //adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-1997103821775387658?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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