Chelsea Common was an 18th-century cricket ground in Chelsea that later largely vanished beneath 19th-century building work, so today it survives more as a lost landscape than a visible open space. Its best-documented sporting history includes at least five recorded matches between 1731 and 1789, including a high-stakes Chelsea v Fulham game and an inter-county match between Middlesex and Surrey.
 
The Common belonged to the early sporting geography of west London, when cricket was still being played on open ground rather than purpose-built stadiums. The surviving records suggest it was active in the 1730s and 1780s, which places it among the better-attested but now-vanished cricket venues of Georgian London. Over time, urban development absorbed the common, and the physical site almost disappeared.
 
Interesting fact...
Today all that exists is a small, neat triangular public garden called Chelsea Green. Go grab a coffee and sit on what would have been one of the U.K's most important sporting venues!