Sport and Leisure
Ampthill has a Non-League football team Ampthill Town F.C. who play at Ampthill Park.
Ampthill Town Cricket Club has been established since 1890 and currently have teams playing in the Hertfordshire league and the Bedfordshire league putting out at least four teams on Saturdays and Sunday. They also host a county game once a year and host an annual friendly game with London Zoo. Their home is in Ampthill Great Park with a magnificent clubhouse and scorebox near the west carpark.
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Famous quotes containing the words sport and/or leisure:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“When at leisure make preparations for a time of need.”
—Chinese proverb.