Great Horwood Cricket Club is a typical village club which began in the 1950’s although no-one seems certain of the exact year. Cricket was played first of all on the other side of the crossroads/roundabout nearer Nash but still on the Nash Road, before moving to its current site in 1962 adding changing facilities in 1964 which consisted of the old Waiting Room from the now closed Swanbourne Railway Station. The Club ground is situated at the roundabout which links the A421 and B4033 and is on the outskirts of the village of Great Horwood.

The Club began by playing friendly fixtures and invitation or informal cup and league competitions with the first recorded cup success, for which records can be found, being the Loyal Western Lodge Cup in 1964. A photograph of the successful team still hangs today in the pavilion. In fact one of that team, Terry McStraw, is still playing cricket in 2006.

League cricket began again in the early 1980’s with one side playing in the Milton Keynes and District League. After success in the lower leagues, the Club finally gained promotion to the Premier Division after winning Division One in 1986, a season which also saw the Club winning the Stewkley Cup, thereby achieving our own “Double”.

The pinnacle of success in this league came in 1992 when Great Horwood won the Premier League and the Stewkley Cup thus again doing the “Double”. By now the Club was also playing in the Buckingham & District Midweek League and fielding a Sunday XI.

In 1994, the playing strength was of sufficient numbers to begin running a second team in the league on Saturdays. Today we are not only running these sides but also have an active youth coaching set-up which attracts in excess of 40 youths to the coaching sessions.

The Club moved from the MK & D League to the Ouse Valley League as a founder member in 1994 however we only stayed in this league for three years before joining the larger Oxfordshire Cricket Association League in 1997 where the 1^st XI won their Division at the first attempt. The 2^nd XI has also subsequently won its Division in 2002 and has won its cup on two occasions in 2001 and 2003.

A Ladies team was also playing occasional games from the early 1980’s and in the late 80’s became a founder member of the Milton Keynes & District Ladies League finishing Runners-up in both the league and cup competitions on a number of occasions. The Ladies team continues to operate successfully up to the present time.

The Club is well known in the area for running its own highly successful invitation Six-a-Side competitions which began for the men in the early 1980’s and for the Ladies shortly afterwards. In 2002 the Club managed to win both the Men’s and the Ladies’ Trophies for the only time in the Club’s history.