A Hampstead cricket club originated as the third St. John's Wood club in 1867, (fn. 155) using the Eton and Middlesex ground until 1870. It moved near St. Mary's church in Belsize Road and became St. John's Wood (Hampstead) cricket club in 1871, when it probably absorbed the nearby Belsize club. The name was changed to Hampstead in 1877 after a move to Lymington Road, where a ground was leased from the lord of the manor. A pavilion was to be built in 1879 and was replaced by a large clubhouse after the freehold had been bought in 1924. (fn. 156) Hampstead cricket club limited its numbers to 200 full and 50 lawn tennis members in 1880. (fn. 157) It was considered the most important of the local recreative clubs by 1890, having already witnessed the highest score yet made, (fn. 158) and in 1949 was claimed to have produced more fine players than any other noncounty club in England. (fn. 159)
Brentford, and from 1959 Hornsey cricket club's grounds at Crouch End. (fn. 165)
Lawn tennis was presumably played at Hampstead cricket club in 1878, when the proposed admission of lady members for tennis was defeated. Tennis players paid separate subscriptions by 1880 and more land was leased for them, at the west end of the ground, in 1881. Five hard courts were provided for the cricket club's flourishing tennis section on the building of the new clubhouse in 1925. (fn. 166)
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