Bridgnorth Cricket Club was established in 1839, an event recorded in "Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle", the leading national sports journal of the day. The three most important cricket clubs in Shropshire at this time were Shrewsbury, Eyton and Bridgnorth.

The club played at several locations before moving to its present ground in 1887, where it had a small clubhouse, which was replaced in 1926, enlarged in 1954 and rebuilt in 1975 after amalgamation with Bridgnorth Hockey Club.

Bridgnorth first played league cricket briefly in 1959 / 60 in an embryo Shropshire Cricket League, but left the league and reverted to playing most of its fixtures against clubs in the West Midlands conurbation, which it had done since the end of the First World War.

In 1972 it joined a re-vamped Shropshire Cricket League, won the league for the first and only time in 2003, and then became part of the new Birmingham and District Premier Cricket League, playing in its second division. The club had an association with the original Birmingham League founded in 1888, and had fixtures with many of its constituent clubs. From 1964 to 1971 Bridgnorth played by invitation in the Birmingham League knockout competition, reaching the final in 1968.

Bridgnorth has played Sunday league cricket since 1988, again in leagues based in the West Midlands, and now plays in the South Staffs Sunday Cricket League, formed in 2003.

The club has a long-established junior cricket section. This has always been very strong and teams play in a full-range of age-group competitions. The club's senior teams are still made up largely of players who have developed through the youth programme - a policy which will continue.

Some Bridgnorth CC players have progressed to careers in first-class cricket. Some have spent time on the staff of first-class counties and numbers have played minor counties cricket for Shropshire.

Sydney Francis Barnes played for Bridgnorth in the 1938 season, and headed the batting and bowling averages. Barnes was, and remains, arguably the greatest fast bowler the world has ever seen, but in 1938 was 65 years old. He continued to play cricket after leaving Bridgnorth.

Full details of the club's history can be found in the book "Bridgnorth Cricket Club : 1839 to 1990", published in 2001.