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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