Burley-on-the-Hill

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Burley or Burley-on-the-Hill is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is located two miles north-east of Oakham. In 2001 it had a population of 321.

The Old Smithy on the village green was used in advertisements for Cherry Blossom shoe polish in the 1920s.

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Burley-on-the-Hill Mansion

The village is well-known for the mansion which overlooks Rutland Water. This great Palladian house was built in the 1690s by the second Earl of Nottingham, and converted into apartments in the 1990s by Kit Martin.

The church of the Holy Cross, adjacent to the mansion, is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It contains a moving 18th-century memorial by Sir Francis Chantry to Lady Charlotte Finch.

Cricket venue

George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea lived at the mansion in the late 18th century and used its grounds to stage a number of cricket matches, eight of them first-class, between 1790 and 1793 [1]. As late as 1814, the venue was used for a Rutland v Nottingham game.

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English cricket venues in the 18th century

References

  1. ^ list of matches

External links

Bibliography

  • G B Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
  • Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862
  • H T Waghorn, The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906

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