Confident croquet players
Croquet players got competitive at Chastleton House – the sport’s apparent Cotswolds birthplace – under the watchful eye of a gaggle of garden-lovers this Sunday (11 July).
National Trust volunteers enjoyed a round of this exquisitely English summer pastime during the annual National Gardens Scheme open day.
Sport historians trace croquet to mediaeval France but National Trust archives suggest the game’s codified rules were devised at this Jacobean merchant’s mansion near Moreton-in-Marsh.
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