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Decca Sports Ground

cricket ground in London, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ5248843 ↗
Source-derived summary

Decca Sports Ground is a cricket ground in Tolworth, London (formerly Surrey). The first recorded professional match on the ground was in 1973, when Surrey played Northamptonshire in a List-A match in the 1973 John Player League as Surrey used a few one-off grounds from 1972 to 1974.

Decca sports club disbanded on the collapse of Decca Radar. The company's rugby union team Racal Decca RFC of Tolworth continues and uses this ground once a year.

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“Decca Sports Ground” enters the record as cricket ground in London, England. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Decca, Sports and Ground can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1972, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Decca, Sports and Ground.
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“Decca Sports Ground” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Decca, Sports and Ground provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5248843. Authority coordinates are 51.377, -0.277. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1972 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Decca Sports Ground” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.