There are three parks in Clanfield. All have swings and other child play items and Peel Park has a
skateboard park. There is a park near the Sports centre in the new housing estate. South Lane Meadow has a
cricket ground, and Peel Park has
football pitches. Peel park has a building with changing rooms in. Clanfield has a football club called Clanfield F.C. The club contains teams for children, which are split into year groups. Clanfield's major community centres are Clanfield Memorial Hall, in South Lane, Clanfield Sports and Community Centre, Endal way, the St James Church Hall and Leader Hall (for the
Scouts), both Little Hyden Lane. The sports centre opened in 2019. There are three
public houses and one wine bar. The rebuilt
Rising Sun in the old village, the
Hampshire Hog (previously
Hogs Lodge) on the outskirts of the parish near the
A3 and the famous
Bat and Ball Inn, in Hyden Farm Lane, opposite the "Cradle of Cricket",
Broadhalfpenny Down cricket ground. The boundary between Clanfield and Hambledon used to run through the
Bat & Ball and the brass strip marking the old boundary still runs across the floor. Both the original
Hogs Lodge (which was originally further behind the present one) and the
Bat And Ball were occupied by members of the Murrant family. Originally a nineteenth-century building, in 1969 the
Rising Sun achieved fame as the pub that was built in one day. There is a not-for-profit website funded by local business intended to benefit the community. Also in Clanfield is the Clanfield Observatory run by the Hampshire Astronomical Group, who have open days. The observatory is next to one of
Portsmouth Water's reservoirs. ==References==