CUM GAUDIO LUDENDO
VINCIT BOHEMIA
Home of the Bohemians
The Bohemian Wanderers were founded in 1977 with one of the first matches being played at Longford Castle, Radnor, c/o Zara Digby who also played along with Sarah Crowle and Sandy Elvers-Dix.
The opposition were the famous Nunton Nonatheleticals who, in keeping with future tradition, won the match captained by Anthony Hillier. Guy Mossop's father, President of the Bohemians, and Brigadier Ridley-Martin kindly umpired, everybody had to bowl and play was interrupted with a good lunch.
The Bohemians, together with Charles Lochrane's North Wiltshire Gentlemen, never had their own pitch. New Bohemia continue to play at some of the those same beautiful village cricket grounds including Shalbourne, Yattendon, Linkenholt and Uffington.
New Bohemia members maintain this site as a way to bring together the various threads of Bohemian cricket old and new. It relies on reports and submissions from donors, subscribers and affiliates in the world of village cricket.
It is open to anyone to join the club and submit information, topics, posts and news. We also hope to publish photographs and documents of general interest in the 'Archive' with the aim to show all things positive of being part of a cricket side such as New Bohemia!
Hopefully it might also encourage other sides to want to play us.
We have played at some of the most beautiful grounds in the country
From town centre pitches to inspirational hidden gems, from sweeping landscapes to unforgotten hillsides and naturalistic meadows. Here are just a few ....
Berkshire - East Woodhay, Inkpen, Yattendon; Buckinghamshire - Amersham; Devon - Okehampton; Gloucestershire - Sheepscombe, Great Rissington, Gloucester, Addlestrop; Hampshire - Linkenholt, Brockwood; Oxfordshire - Uffington, Oxford; Wiltshire - Radnor, Salisbury, Shalbourne, Spy Park, Chitterne; Worcestershire - Rous Lench, Darlingscote