 Part of it was a cricket venue in the 18th century and the home of Chertsey Cricket Club.Where not considered for former land ownership reasons with Abbey Mead (being together a large mill-race island with a broad corollary of the river beside them), the old definition of Laleham Burway, in 1911, comprised which were largely for horse and cow pasture.The near-triangular bulk of the ground measured as about on the right bank of the Thames in 1911 constitutes its narrow, historical definition to distinguish Laleham Burway's at times separate ownership from Abbey Mead.