Saturday league cricket in the T. Rippon Mid Essex, midweek T20 on summer evenings, and a clubhouse in Weald Park that has been ours since 1949.
On Saturdays the Weald is a cricket ground. The rest of the week it is a room with a bar and a view of the square, and it is available to hire.
Use this form for private hire, club functions, community events, and matchday hospitality.
Wakes, christenings, parties and meetings, with the bar staffed on request.
Full details on clubhouse hireA single open room with its own bar, looking out over the square. Suits birthdays, wakes, christenings, meetings and club functions.
New flooring, heating, air conditioning and insulation went in during 2024, funded by a £32,000 UK Levelling Up grant, so the room works in December as well as July.
Staffed on request, or dry-hire if you would rather bring your own arrangements.
Disabled access was improved as part of the same 2024 refit, so the clubhouse and function room are reachable without steps.
Twelve acres of Weald Park either side of the pavilion, usable for marquees, photographs and outdoor events by arrangement.
Off-road parking beside the ground on Weald Road, a few minutes from Brentwood town centre.
Send a few details and someone from the club will come back to you. We usually reply within 48 hours.
Two Saturday XIs in the T. Rippon Mid Essex League, which runs twelve divisions and more than fifty clubs across the county, plus a midweek T20 team. All three take new players, and the 49’ers need no league registration.
How to join BrookwealdBrookweald 1st XI compete in Division 2 of the T. Rippon Mid Essex League. 2026: won 5, lost 11.
Get a gameBrookweald 2nd XI compete in Division 7 of the T. Rippon Mid Essex League. 2026: won 12, lost 4.
Get a gameThe Brookweald 49'ers are the club's midweek T20 side. Winners of the Mid-Week Essex T20 Plate in 2026.
Get a gameEvery figure below comes from the club’s own scoring, ball by ball. The full review covers both league teams and the T20 campaign.
League matches, 1st and 2nd XI
| Rank | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Hill | 1,157 pts |
| 2 | Saf Abbas | 1,046 pts |
| 3 | Armaan AliShah | 902 pts |
| 4 | Rob Harvey | 859 pts |
| 5 | Ryan Chapman | 709 pts |
Final standings.
The club runs on MVP Cricket, a club-management platform that syncs with Play-Cricket. Every scorecard we submit is turned into points across batting, bowling and fielding, so the table reads a season the way a captain sees it rather than the way a scorebook does. A player who takes three wickets and two catches shows up, not just the one who made runs.
It is also what runs this website’s photos and content behind the scenes.
Full scorecards and league tables live on Play-Cricket.
Anthony Hill took 32 wickets at 13.41, nine more than anyone else and at a third off the club average. Saf Abbas made 632 runs at 63.20.
The club was founded on heathland in Weald Park that had been an army base through the war, and has played there ever since.
Local enthusiasts turn former army heathland in Weald Park into a cricket ground. The first pavilion is a salvaged prefabricated building.
A new pavilion designed by Arthur and Len Radley is opened by Sir Hubert Ashton, President of the M.C.C., and marked with a match against an Essex County XI.
The club’s first league honours, in the T. Rippon Mid Essex League. Brookweald finished joint champions of Division Five alongside Willowherbs CC, both ninety points clear of third. By June 2001 the team sat unbeaten at the top of Division Four, six wins from six and forty points clear.
Players arrive from May & Baker CC through the 2000s, and Chadwell Heath Cricket Club comes across almost in full in the later 2010s. Between them they build the playing membership the club has today.
A £32,000 UK Levelling Up grant pays for new flooring, heating, air conditioning and insulation at the clubhouse, step-free disabled access, and new practice nets.
To play cricket and run a club that predominantly was about looking after each other first during periods of unemployment, marriage break-ups etc, and losing wasn’t an issue so long as we enjoyed it.
Ray and a rebuilt committee took the club into the T. Rippon Mid Essex League with a single XI, and opened up membership so players could commit to a handful of games rather than a whole season. The club’s first league silverware followed.
Ray retired, and by the later 2010s the club had come close to folding, down to a single team and about fifteen members. Phil Lee took over as Chairman in 2018, rebuilt the committee and began the turnaround, helped by Chadwell Heath Cricket Club joining Brookweald en masse. Phil still leads the club.
Membership now runs to more than fifty across three teams, and the next additions are a colts set-up for younger players and a possible return to Sunday fixtures.
Off Weald Road, a few minutes from Brentwood town centre, with parking beside the ground.
Weald Road Brentwood Essex CM14 5QG
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