Saltford Cricket Club was founded in 1916 and played at several locations in the village before moving to its current ground.
The club joined the Bristol and District League before moving to the Somerset League where it climbed to Division III.
In the North Somerset League the club reached the final of the league’s first cup final, losing to close neighbours Keynsham, and lost in the 1981 final to Headley Park.
Saltford were Division II champions in 1982 and in 1989 finished runners-up in the First Division.
Saltford has at least one claim to fame – it was in -the village that the first RECORDED cricket match in Somerset took place on July 13, 1751.
It followed a most memorable Royal picnic when the then Prince of Wales, accompanied by his eldest daughter Lady Augusta, on a visit to Bath in 1750, travelled in a wherry by ‘river to Saltford.
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