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A Vigorous Modern Rugby Club In Every Sense
Despite the upheavals caused by the arrival of professional rugby, the Club remains a significant influence within a sport to which it has contributed so much.
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Blackheath is the premier Rugby Club in Kent and the only first class club in South East London. Premier clubs from overseas and many other leading British clubs regularly visit the Rectory Field.
There are a great many amateur teams playing for Blackheath apart from the professional 1st XV squad, including several men's teams, a vigorous youth section, a very successful women's team competing in the National Premier League One and flourishing Junior and Mini Rugby sides.
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The Rectory Field
Just as they had been on Richardson's Field, the Club's first opponents at the Rectory Field were Guy's Hospital in an opening match played on 17th January 1883. In 1885 the Blackheath Cricket, Football and Lawn Tennis Company Limited was formed. The Company is still very much in existence and squash has been added to the facilities available. Cricket has been played for well over a hundred years at the Rectory Field which for many years was a Kent County ground.
The original and historic club venue, one of the most revered in the game, has necessarily been extended and developed over the years. It is full of rugby memorabilia and has an atmosphere of venerable hospitality that is " its own and entirely appropriate for a club that is truly one of the patriarchs of Rugby Football.