Marylebone: Dorset Square, NW1 (The first Lord's Cricket Ground)
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Marylebone: Dorset Square, NW1 (The first Lord's Cricket Ground)
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 12 Oct 2011
Thomas Lord laid out a cricket ground here, at the site of the present day Dorset Square, in 1787 and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which was to use it, was formed in the same year. The MCC moved out of Dorset Square around 1811 when the first houses around it were being built, and, after a brief sojourn elsewhere in Marylebone, moved to the present day Lord's Cricket Ground in 1814. One of the first cricket matches to take place here, in September 1787, was a game between a side assembled by Lord Winchelsea and one assembled by Sir Horace Mann with a winner take all prize of 1,000 guineas, a not inconsiderable sum of money in those days. Sir Horace Mann's side, with the renowned bowler Edward "Lumpy" Stevens in the team, prevailed by 94 runs.
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