A tall half round stone; carved at the top, on a band between leaves and below a crown and cross, are a very small cricket bat and balls
In Memory of Richard MILLS, late of Pump farm in this parish, who died Jany 25th 1882 aged 83 years.
Haslewood p31; he also gives on pp 188-9 details of him as a cricketer and the famous match of Sept 1834 when he and Edward Gower Wenman challenged an XI chosen from the Isle of Oxney, and won.
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