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Bacup Cricket Club

UK cricket team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4840100 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bacup Cricket Club, based at Lanehead in Bacup, Lancashire, are a cricket club in the Lancashire League.

The club was formed in 1860, and still uses its original ground in Lanehead Lane. The club received a grant from Valencia Waste Management through the Landfill Communities Fund, for refurbishment of its facilities and function rooms.

Their professional for the 2008 season was Chris Harris.

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The public source identifies “Bacup Cricket Club” as uK cricket team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bacup, Cricket and Club.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1860, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bacup, Cricket and Club providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4840100. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1860 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bacup Cricket Club” 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.