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Officers Club Services Ground

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Sport in the British ArmySports venues completed in 1861Use British English from February 2023

The Officers Club Services Ground is a cricket ground in Fleet Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, England. Aldershot had been a small village until 1853, but was transformed following the purchase of 25,000 acres of land by the War Office for military training. Over the following two decades Aldershot was transformed into a garrison town, by 1874 a number of cricket grounds, including the Officers Club Services Ground, had been constructed for use by the various regiments garrisoned there.

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Officers Club Services Ground
Fleet Road, Rushmoor

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