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Bat and Ball

Photograph at the Bat and Ball blue plaque

HMS Mercury. The Bat and Ball was a popular local pub frequented by personnel serving at HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy Communications and Navigation School that occupied the 120 acre Leydene Estate 2 miles north west of here from 1941 to 1993. HMS Mercury played cricket on Broadhalfpenny Down from about 1947 to 1992.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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