The W G Grace
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The W G Grace
Image: © Richard Hoare Taken: 25 Jun 2017
A J. D. Wetherspoon pub based on Cliftons famous cricketer. Clifton College cricket ground, known as The Close, features in a famous poem by Sir Henry Newbolt. It was also the ground where Dr WG Grace, one of the all-time cricketing greats, played his first serious representative match, at the age of 15. Born in 1848, at Downend (then a village and now a suburb of Bristol), Grace scored 14 first-class centuries at The Close, including 221 runs against Middlesex, taking 10 wickets in the same match. I sampled an excellent mixed grill and suffered a warm pint of Sharp's Doom Bar followed by a mediocre Abbot Ale.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.46276
Longitude
-2.608694