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Sunday 9 August, 2pm, Church Field, Warleggan – Croquet Afternoon – all ages and abilities welcome; please bring croquet set if you have one. a fun and friendly afternoon, bring food and drinks, and come and enjoy! Grateful thanks to St Bartholomew’s Church in Warleggan for making us welcome – Location: PL30 4HB – W3W: ///panning.racetrack.though
Hopefully by holding the event in August, rather than October, we will have a better chance of good weather! See you there.
Every year, we try to organise a game of croquet – but so often the weather gets in the way; this happened in both 2024 and 2025. The most recent tournaments were held in September in the years 2023, 2021, 2019 and 2016, as reported below.
Croquet Afternoon, Sunday 10 September 2023 – another wonderful afternoon; this time there were fears it would be too hot (rather than too wet), but thankfully the heat dropped and the breeze kept us all cool. We also played simplified rules, so the games were not quite as long as they might otherwise be. A big thanks again to St Neot Cricket Club for allowing us to use their field at their end of season.
We were so focused on the game we forgot to take any photos, except the presentation on the cup to this year’s winners!
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Croquet Tournament 2021
We had a great afternoon of croquet on Sunday 12 September 2021, and the weather held; it started to drizzle lightly only after the final game.
Congratulations to the new champions Kate and Dave.
Thanks yet again to St Neot Taverners Cricket Club who let us loose on their beautiful field.
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Croquet Tournament 2019
Sunday 8 September 2019, at St Neot Cricket Club field.
The sun shone, and organisers were both surprised and delighted to see the numbers of people who came along, many of whom had barely if ever wielded a croquet mallet before. It was a lovely friendly atmosphere, with a beautiful field, fine weather, a lovely spread of food… and of course such talent!
Many thanks to those who brought their croquet sets with them; even more to those who couldn’t come but loaned their sets. Big thanks too to St Neot Taverners Cricket Club who let us loose on their beautiful field.
Altogether there were more than a dozen pairs playing, and the trophy was awarded to winners Birgit and Chris.
Croquet Tournament 2016
The croquet tournament was held on 31 July 2016, the first for several years that had perfect weather. It was a friendly doubles competition held at the St Neot Taverners Cricket Club field (many thanks to them for granting us the use of the field for this day).
Seven pairs played, and this year’s winners were Malcolm and Jenny.
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