CLUB COLOURS - Oxford Blue and Cambridge Blue

CLUB CONTACTS - Nick Brook - nickb@british-thornton.co.uk

CLUB WEBSITE - The Club does not currently have its own web-site but details of the Cricket Club can be found on www.burley-in-wharfedale.org

Home Ground - Hodson Park, Grange Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale. From Leeds, follow the A65 towards Ilkley and bear left into Burley, just before the A65 joins the new by-pass. Go past the Cutlers restaurant and bear left and then first left onto Grange Road. The road bears right and the ground is on the left at the bottom.

The history of Burley-in-Whafedale CC

The Club was originally known as Burley Clarence and played on what is now known as the Recreation ground, prior to it being donated to the village by Fisons millowners. The ground was then known as Clarence Field and was approached by Clarence Place, which is adjacent to the car-park of the Malt Shovel (now Cutlers).

Unfortunately, there is no record of the formation of the Club but is is understood that “play commenced” in the 1850s. A photo hangs in the Club which dates back to the 1880s.

A report in the Airedale-Wharfedale Observer of 21 February 1902 states that, after a Burley Cricketers` Dinner, the following occurred

“Mr J.Lockwood submitted a proposal to change the name of the Club. Hitherto, he said, they had been known as Burley Clarence Club, possibly because they had played in Clarence Field. This name, he pointed out, led to confusion because there was a Clarence Club of Leeds and visiting teams had suggested that the name should be changed. He therefore proposed that the Club should now be known as Burley-in-Wharfedale CC. Mr R.Hardisty seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The Chairman commended the decision they had arrived at”

It appears that the Club played at the Clarence Field until 1898/1899, when they moved to a ground near the station. In 1900, they moved to Walton Park (now the site of Ghyll Royd School at the Western end of the by-pass) and played there until 1914.

After the Great War, they played a season (1919) at Menston and moved back to the Recreation ground (formerly Clarence Field) from 1920 to 1924.

The Club commenced playing at its present site, Hodson Park, in 1925, the same year that a section of the Yorkshire Cricket Council instituted a section devoted to Clubs in the Airedale-Wharfedale areas.

The present pavilion was opened on Saturday 5 June 1937 and a scorecard of the occasion can be found by clicking here.

The match was a local derby between Otley and Burley, won by Burley.

CLUB HONOURS

League Champions (2) 1944, 1964 

Division B Champions (4) 1960 (Joint), 1973, 1998, 2004

Reserve Division B Champions (3) 1964, 1982, 2003, 2007

3rd XI Champions - 2004

Waddilove Cup Winners (6) 1944, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1966, 2000

Birtwhistle Cup Winners 1969

Burmah Oil Club Champions 1982, 2007

Winner of the Eddie Nelson U13 Festival - 2004

INDIVIDUAL HONOURS

1st XI (Division A) Batting - W.M.Twigg (1936), H.Bolton (1965), A.Atkinson (1969, 1973)

1st XI (Division B) Batting - M.Heaton (1982), D.Brook (2001)

2nd XI (Division A) Batting - R.Herrin (1938), E.Dearden (1976)

2nd XI (Division B) Batting - E.Dearden (1979, 1980),
Ian Normington (2007)

1st XI (Division A) Bowling  - J.Clapham (1938), P.D.Hey (1967)

1st XI (Division B) Bowling - H.Shaw (1978)

2nd XI (Division A) Bowling - K.G.Sykes (1964)

2nd XI (Division B) Bowling -  A.Knowles (1982)

1st XI Don Brennan Wicket-Keeping - Richard Brook (2007)

2nd XI Harry McIlvenney Wicket-Keeping
M.Wadsworth (1979 [Joint]), S.Thorne (1996) , D.Bryan (2006 - Joint)

3rd XI J.C.Clapham Wicket-Keeping - C.Peel (1998), R.Parker (2004)

3rd XI Don Summersgill Fielding Shield - C.Normington (2002)

1st XI Ellicott Fielding Trophy - I.Normington (1982 - Joint), 1984)

2nd XI Eric Money Fielding Trophy - D.Allister (1989 - Joint)

3rd XI Don Summersgill Fielding Trophy - S.Tomlinson (2000 - Joint)

U20 Batting - J.K.Harrison (1958), J.F.Fordham (1960), G.Fordham (1963), M.Brearley (1976), J.P.Fordham (1977), C.Wheeler (2003)

U20 Bowling - D.Shackleton (1981), R.Harrison (1984),
N.Brook (1995, 1998)

Man of the Match Award - Waddilove Cup Final - M.Saddique (2000)

Joe Lumb Player of the Season
.Brearley (1979 - Joint), C.Wheeler (1999, 2000)

LTYJCF U15 Player of the Season
C.Renton (1990 - Joint), C.Wheeler (1997)

LTYJCF U13 Player of the Season - C.Wheeler (1996)

LTYJCF U11 Player of the Season - G.Ross (2004)