Editing Knutsford (section)

== Sport ==
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Knutsford Cricket Club<ref>[http://knutsford.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp Knutsford Cricket Club official website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310143314/http://knutsford.play-cricket.com/home/home.asp |date=10 March 2012 }} Retrieval Date: 25 September 2007.</ref> was established in 1881 and plays its home games on Mereheath Lane in the Cheshire Cricket Alliance.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160128211952/http://mbccl.co.uk/ Meller Braggins Cricket League Official website.]}} Retrieval Date: 25 September 2007.</ref>

[[Toft Cricket Club]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Toft Cricket Club|url=http://toft.play-cricket.com/|website=Toft Cricket Club official website|access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref> is located at Booths Park, Chelford Road. The Cricket Club gets its name from a neighbouring civil parish of [[Toft, Cheshire|Toft]], where the original ground was located when the club was established in 1928. Toft play in the ECB Premier Division of the Cheshire County Cricket League<ref>[http://www.cheshirecountycl.org.uk/ Cheshire County Cricket League Official website.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028114912/http://www.cheshirecountycl.org.uk/ |date=28 October 2016 }} Retrieval Date: 19 December 2016.</ref> It won the National Village Championship trophy at [[Lord's Cricket Ground|Lords]] in 1989.

Knutsford Hockey Club<ref>[http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/knutsfordhockeyclub Knutsford Hockey Club official website.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210171035/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/knutsfordhockeyclub |archive-date=5 February 2016 }} Retrieval Date: 19 December 2016.</ref> plays its home games at Knutsford Leisure Centre and are based at the Crosstown Bowling Club on Chelford Road. This 100-year-old club runs 3 men's teams, a ladies team, a mixed team and a badgers team. The Men's 1st XI play in Division 1 of The North West Hockey League<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northwesthockeyleague.co.uk/ |title=The North West Hockey League |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205141507/http://www.northwesthockeyleague.co.uk/ |date=5 February 2016 |archive-date=5 February 2016}}</ref>

[[Knutsford F.C.|Knutsford Football Club]], formed in 1948, play at their Manchester Road ground. The club has two Saturday teams, the first team in the Cheshire League and the second or A team in the Altrincham and District League. Two Associated Veterans teams also play on Sundays in the Cheshire Veterans League. In 2015, a youth team has been fielded again after a break of 127 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.knutsfordfootballclub.co.uk/ |title=Knutsford Football Club |access-date=1 December 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014100042/http://www.knutsfordfootballclub.co.uk/ |archive-date=14 October 2016 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Every ten years, Knutsford hosts an international three-hour endurance race for [[Penny-farthing]] bicycles.<ref>{{cite news |title=Penny farthing race takes place in Knutsford |date=5 September 2010 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11192407 |work=BBC News |access-date=6 September 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100905194035/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11192407 |archive-date=5 September 2010}}</ref>