Sport
Petersfield has a number of clubs and teams for most sports. Several players have gone on to lead successful professional sporting careers, such as footballer Maik Taylor and rugby player Tim Rodber.
There are various sports venues, such as the Taro Centre, a leisure centre containing swimming pools, squash courts, a gymnasium and other facilities. The town also has tennis courts (both public and members only), an open-air pool, and many playing fields and local golf courses.
Petersfield Town F.C. is the town's football club and plays in the Wessex League.
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Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)