Greatest Moment

1947 - as Upper Chapel CC, going through the season unbeaten and lifting two trophies.

Local Hero

Arthur Aspinall - prolific wicket-taker and ex-Bradford League player.

Bizarre Fact

The club's 1981 AGM was postponed due to snow.

The Church and the Club

Heckmondwike and Carlinghow United Cricket Club was not founded under this name.

In 1890 Upper Independent Chapel was built on Chapel Lane, Heckmondwike, and it was this institution that gave rise to Upper Chapel Cricket Club - that later merged with a Carlinghow cricket club to form Heckmondwike and Carlinghow United Cricket Club.

The construction of Upper Independent Chapel led to the formation of the cricket team. The church gave the local community a meeting place where they could arrange social and leisure events such as cricket matches.

Early members of the team are likely to have been closely associated with the church. Later evidence suggests that this was also the case many years thereafter.

The first mention of a ‘Cricket Club’ came in Upper Chapel literature of 1892.