Surrey
Official Surrey CCC Website
The Oval, aka The Brit Oval
SE11 5SS
Larger playing area than any other Test ground in the northern hemisphere (only Melbourne is larger). Best views from Pavilion or Peter May Enclosure to east of ground.
Used to be cold, damp, decaying concrete but greatly improved for the 1999 World Cup, due for big future investment at both the Pavilion and Vauxhall ends (which will increase capacity from 18,500 to 24,000),
The Surrey Tavern pub has now gone and so has the cramped, dingy passage between it and the Pavilion.
Still a cauldron in late August for the final Test of a series.
Next to Oval Tube, half a mile from Vauxhall main-line station and Tube.
Tel: 08712 461100 (10p per minute)
Fax: 020 7735 7769
e-mail: enquiries@surreycricket.com
| Admission Charges | Adult | Under 16 |
| County Championship | 12.00 | 6.00 |
| League | 12.00 | 6.00 |
| Twenty20 | 15.00 | 7.50 |
Under 17 Junior membership only costs 15.00
Guildford
3/4 mile from station. Across the river Wey then along Woodbridge Road. Excellent food and beer tents, staffed by volunteers.
Tel: 01483-572181
Croydon
Whitgift School. Brighton Road. 1 1/2 miles from East Croydon station (follow the tramlines west to
the High Street, then due south), 2 miles due south from West Croydon Station, 1/2 mile west from South Croydon station.
Whitgift School in "Sarf Croydon" may not have the same social cachet as Cheltenham College, Gloucestershire,
but it is very pleasant with marquees in front of the trees that ring the ground, and a battlemented tower on the
wooded skyline (actually a Victorian water tower). The non-marquee spectators sit on a steep bank above the ground.
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