page_title: Wrecclesham
section_title: Sport
hierarchical_section_title: Wrecclesham / Sport
caption_attribution_description: English: Wrecclesham v Headley Sept 2013
context_page_description: Wrecclesham is a village on the southern outskirts of the large town of Farnham in Surrey, England. Its local government district is the Borough of Waverley.
  Wrecclesham recreation ground caters for cricket, football, rugby and tennis clubs. This is where Jonny Wilkinson and Graham Thorpe started careers in their professional sports, as well as many sportsmen of some generations before such as Billy Beldham and Vic Cannings.
  It was once in the estate of Henry of Westminster and Blois the powerful 13th-century bishop who owned the majority of the fertile portion of the land, in what was then Farnham and soon became the related parishes of Farnham and Frensham in Farnham Hundred. Farnham remains in use as Wrecclesham's post town. Wrecclesham acquired village status in 1840 when its first place of worship was built.
context_section_description: Cricket
  Wrecclesham Cricket Club can be linked back to 4 May 1901, where an advert in the Farnham Herald was posted to find players willing to play and train in the game of cricket. The club moved to the recreation ground in Riverdale in the 1930s. Competing in the Farnham and District Cricket league, the club won its first honours in 1934 and 1936 
  Wrecclesham joined the I’Anson competition in 1953 and won it in 1956  The I’Anson league consists of six divisions (2014) and provides an entry level for cricketers.  The first team were relegated to the Division 4 of the I’Anson league in 2008. However, the club turned a corner and in the following 3 seasons, the club earned three consecutive promotions. The Farnham Herald recognised this achievement, publishing with the statement ‘there is no precedent for an established club winning three consecutive promotions as Wrecclesham have done’, praising the teams ‘high team ethic’.
  The introduction of a club identity was established in 2008 with a new club crest (understood to be the first ever registered by the club) of an owl over a pottery kiln. This came from the Farnham Pottery which was widely known for its 'owl jugs' which were produced up to the 1950s. The nickname, 'The Owls' was then adopted by the club. The club started up a second team in 2009. The 2nd XI were promoted to Division 5 in 2011 and to Division 4 in 2014.
  Although the sport facilities remain, Farnham Rugby Union Football Club left Wrecclesham in 2011 and Badshot Lea Football Club became the new occupants of the ground. 
  Football
  Wrecclesham Football Club joined the Surrey County Intermediate League (Western) in 2007 and won its Premier Division in 2011.  The club's top team opted to promotion to the top division of the Aldershot & District Football League where it has a second team who play some divisions below, being a multi-rung league.
  Wrecclesham Football Club folded at the end of the 2013/14 season.
  United Football Club of Farnham (UFC Farnham) became the only football club based in Wrecclesham from the 2014/15 season with their first and reserve teams playing in the Guildford & Woking Alliance Football League Divisions Three and Five respectively. In May 2016 it was announced that UFC Farnham would merge with the Wrecclesham Social Club to once again become Wrecclesham FC, continuing the tradition of a club which was founded in 1904.
  In 2019 Badshot Lea F.C. opened a new football ground at Westfield Lane, the site previously used by Farnham Rugby Club, their first game was played against Aldershot F.C. on 6 July 2019, the club had previously groundshared at multiple clubs in West Surrey and compete in the Combined Counties Football League, making them the highest placed club ever in the village.
caption: Wrecclesham Rec Sept 2013
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