Last Alteration: Tuesday 13 November 2007
Withyham Cricket Club
GPS Coordinates
00°08'12", 51°05'59"
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Withyham Cricket Club
Buckhurst Park, Withyham, East Sussex
Withyham Cricket Club is on the Buckhurst Park estate, a few hundreds yards along the drive from the Park entrance. It was founded in 1946, and has the currrent Earl De La Warr (who owns the estate) as it's president.
How to get here:
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Road: B2110 - Via Royal Tunbridge Wells (A26), follow the A264 west towards East Grinstead, then take the B2110 towards Groombridge. At Groombridge, continue across the mini-roundabout towards Withyham; the entrance to Buckhurst Park is by the Dorset Arms pub. Parking: road alongside the pub. By foot follow the drive up to the cricket club. +
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Photograph taken: 18th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Black Orchid (1)
Filmed: 6-8 Oct 1981
Photograph taken: 18th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Black Orchid (1)
Filmed: 6-8 Oct 1981
Photograph taken: 18th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Black Orchid (1)
Filmed: 6-8 Oct 1981
Photograph taken: 18th June 2006 by Chuck Foster
Black Orchid (1)
Filmed: 6-8 Oct 1981
Where to walk to next?
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Buckhurst House (Black Orchid). Follow the drive further into the Park, and it will eventually weave right, up to the front of the house.
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Buckhurst Park (Woods) (Castrovalva). Follow the drive further into the Park, and it will eventually weave right up to the house; the path to the woods is on the left, alongside the lake.
Other nearby locations:
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Harrison's Rocks (Castrovalva, The Mind Robber). Road (3.3 miles, 8m) : Follow the B2110 east towards Groombridge; when you reach the mini-roundabout in the village, turn right into Station Road and then follow this over the railway bridge and then bear right in Eridge Road. Birchden Wood and the rocks are a couple of hundred yards on the right hand side. Parking: Birchden Wood car park (£1.00).
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Sussex Police Training Centre (Crowborough) (Castrovalva). Road (5.8 miles, 11m) : Head west along the B2110, passing through Withyham. When you reach
Hartfield, turn left onto the B2026 towards Uckfield and then continue
past the junction with the B2188 and the police training centre
on the site is on the right. Parking: unknown. 
There are a number of car parks off the road for the forest.
Additional locations as the crow flies:
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Crowborough Training Camp (The Curse of Fenric): 3.67 miles.
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Gatwick Airport (The Faceless Ones): 14.04 miles.
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Beachfields Quarry (Frontier in Space, The Invasion of Time, Planet of the Daleks): 15.80 miles.
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Yew Tree Farm (The Curse of Fenric): 16.16 miles.
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Roses Farm (The Curse of Fenric): 16.26 miles.
Related Stories
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Black Orchid [9 Oct 1981]: The Doctor helps the Cranleigh Hall team to victory at cricket!
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