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Eachard Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0HY

The houses on the right back on to Fitzwilliam College Sports Ground.

Two city teams played a Cambridgeshire Cricket Association league match on Fitzwilliam College Ground. The flats at the far end of the ground are on Sherlock Close.

A Cambridgeshire Cricket Association match between NCI Second XI and Camden (Cambridge), played on a May afternoon. Camden made 218 for 7 and NCI were bowled out for 178.

Early on in a Cambridgeshire Cricket Association league match between two city sides, NCI and Camden, a local head teacher bowled to one of the NCI openers. Camden, the visitors, went on to win the match. The Fitzwilliam College outfield was brown in the dry summer of 2018.

Early on in a Cambridgeshire Cricket Association league match between two city sides the NCI opener flashed hard at a wide ball and was caught by the Camden wicketkeeper. The Fitzwilliam College outfield is brown in the dry summer of 2018. (NCI 145 for 7, Camden 146 for 4.)

A quiet road of semi-detached houses built in the 1930s on the north-western edge of the city. The builders were in at several of them, adding extensions.

A segregated ginnel or snicket (pedestrians on the left, cyclists to the right) linking the south end of Hoadly Road to Windsor Road and providing a useful short cut to the shops and facilities in Histon Road for residents of this group of residential roads named after former members of St Catharine's College. Unlike Robert Woodlark, John Eachard and Thomas Sherlock, Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761) never became Master of his college but was famed as a prelate and controversialist. He was successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury and Winchester but rarely visited his various dioceses, preferring to reside in London and indulge in his hobby of controversy. The sight screen at the right belongs to Fitzwilliam College's cricket ground. It may be seen in use in John Sutton's photograph of Image

The Fitzwilliam sports ground is unusual among Cambridge college grounds in being hemmed in by the terraced houses of Oxford Road (opposite, behind the red-brick pavilion and groundsman's house). On a breezy June Saturday afternoon Fitzwilliam was the venue of the Cambridge Cricket Association Division 3B game between Camden III (Cambridge) and Fen Ditton. The villagers - here fielding - won a low-scoring game by 4 wickets to remain unbeaten and stay top of the division.

In a Cambridge Cricket Association match played at Fitzwilliam College Ground NCI Second XI had just taken the sixth Camden (Cambridge) wicket and the scoreboard would shortly be updated. The Pavilion is dated 1927. Camden 218 for 7, NCI 178.