Welcome to Bath Croquet Club!
Croquet is a fascinating game played by men and women of all ages. It is a summer sport played outdoors on a grass court the size of two tennis courts. It is a sport which successfully combines ball skills, tactics, sociability and excitement.
Bath Croquet Club has 4 full sized lawns and is based in the centre of Bath on the Recreation Ground, opposite Bath Rugby. For further information please contact Daniel Mills at croquetdan*hotmail.com (replace * with @)
We played 4 matches in the South West Federation B League and received 1 walkover from Palace Wells. We were fortunate in winning all 4 matches played, due in part to having Ian Morrison for 2 of the matches (he won all his games as he passed through the B League en route to better
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Early morning rain on the Saturday made life difficult for those making final preparations on the lawns for the start of play but fortunately the local weather forecast was proved correct in that conditions improved gradually throughout the July weekend, with the lawns slowly drying out and speeding up over the two days. With a
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Bath 2 Bear of Rodborough 5 The contrast with our previous home match two weeks previously couldn’t have been greater. Wall to wall torrential rain was happily replaced by wall to wall cloudless skies on Sunday 26 June. Perfect conditions with the lawns becoming faster as the day progressed. The Bath doubles pair
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Nailsea 3 Bath 4 Bath snatch victory from the jaws of defeat; or a match of two halves; or even, Connie Stopforth holds nerve magnificently for stunning victory in the last game! The match was played on Thursday 23 June, and the morning games didn’t go well for Bath. The doubles (Connie Stopforth: 18 & Richard
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Bath 5 Sidmouth 0 Bath welcomed Sidmouth Croquet Club to the Recreation Ground on Saturday 11 June for their second league match of the 2011 season. On paper, this had the potential to be a very one-sided affair and, unfortunately for Sidmouth, that proved to be the case. Experienced Roger Hayes, got Bath off
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