Denbighshire County Cricket Club was a county cricket

County cricket

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 club based in the historic Welsh

Wales

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 county of Denbighshire

Denbighshire

Denbighshire is a county in north-east Wales. It is named after the historic county of Denbighshire, but has substantially different borders. Denbighshire has the distinction of being the oldest inhabited part of Wales. Pontnewydd Palaeolithic site has remains of Neanderthals from 225,000 years...

, that played in the Minor Counties Championship for five seasons from 1930 to 1935 (missing the 1932 season). The side was unsuccessful, and in its final season it lost each of its eight matches, six of them by an innings. It finished bottom of the championship table in each of its seasons.

After the 1935 season

1935 English cricket season

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, the side disbanded. Although it considered forming a Gentlemen of Denbighshire team for eventual readmission to the Minor Counties (see Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

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, 1936 edition), that did not happen. The county played matches around Denbighshire, at Marchwiel

Marchwiel

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, Chirk

Chirk

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 and Brymbo

Brymbo

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. It played the majority of its home matches at Penrhyn Avenue, Colwyn Bay

Colwyn Bay Cricket Club Ground

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.