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Blackheath Football Club (The Club) is a rugby football club based in Blackheath in south-east London now playing at the Rectory Field (known as ‘The Rec’ or ‘The Parsonage’). It was founded in 1858 and is the oldest open rugby club in the world. Open in this context means that membership was open to anyone not merely those attending or old boys from a particular institution (e.g. a school university or hospital).