Sport and Leisure
Great Bookham has a Non-League football club Bookham F.C. who play at the Chrystie Recreation Ground in the Combined Counties Premier Division with all the new teams coming into it from the Ryman League. The club was founded prior to World War I. The town is also home to Reading University Badminton Captain 2010/11 James Goodman, who successfully led the squad to safety during a potentially perilous campaign.
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Famous quotes containing the words sport and/or leisure:
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)