List of cricket grounds in England and Wales

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List of cricket grounds in England and Wales, listed in alphabetical order based on historic county.

International grounds

Domestic grounds in England

Bedfordshire

Berkshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Oldfield Bray
(Oldfield)
Bray Berkshire (pre-county club) (1792)
Oldfield (1793–1794)
[1]

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cornwall

Cumberland

Derbyshire

Devon

Dorset

Durham

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Portrack Lane Stockton-on-Tees Yorkshire and Durham (1858)
Yorkshire with Stockton-on-Tees (1861)
[2]

Essex

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Langton Park Hornchurch Hornchurch Cricket Club (1787–1793)
Essex (pre-county club) (1792)
[3]
The Green Man Navestock RN Newman's XI (1793) [4]
Toby Howe Cricket Ground Billericay Essex Cricket Board (2000) [5]

Gloucestershire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Hatherley and Reddings Cricket Club Ground Cheltenham Gloucestershire Cricket Board (1999) [6]

Hampshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Bramshill Park Bramshill Hampshire (pre-county club) (1823–1826) [7]
Broadhalfpenny Down Hambledon Hampshire (pre-county club) (1772–1781)
Hambledon (1908)
[8]
Cheden Holt Hambledon Hampshire (pre-county club) (1776) [9]
Itchin Stoke Down Alresford Hampshire (pre-county club) (1778–1806) [10]
Windmill Down Hambledon Hampshire (pre-county club) (1782–1792) [11]

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire

Huntingdonshire

Isle of Wight

Kent

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Bishopsbourne Paddock Bishopsbourne Kent (pre-county club) (1773–1789) [12]
Bowman's Lodge Dartford Kent (1806) [13]
Cobham Park Cobham Kent (pre-county club) (1792) [14]
Dandelion Paddock Margate Sir H Mann's XI (1795)
England (1796)
[15]
Dartford Brent Dartford Kent (pre-county club) (1792–1793) [16]
Hawkhurst Moor Hawkhurst Kent (1825–1826) [17]
Napps Wrotham Kent (1815) [18]
Penenden Heath Maidstone Kent (pre-county club) (1795) [19]
Phillip's Field Bromley Kent (1840) [20]
Star Inn
(Coxheath Common)
Coxheath Kent (pre-county club) (1787–1788) [21]
Vine Cricket Ground
(Sevenoaks Vine)
Sevenoaks Kent (pre-county club) (1773–1786)
Kent (1827–1829)
[22]

Lancashire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Ashton Club Ground Ashton-under-Lyne Cambridgeshire/Yorkshire (1865) [23]
Botanical Gardens Manchester Manchester Cricket Club (1848–1854)
Lancashire (pre-county club) (1849–1851)
[24]
Broughton Cricket Club Ground Salford North (1856 & 1859–1863)
Gentlemen of the North (1858–1860)
[25]
GP Codie's Ground Eccles Manchester Cricket Club (1857–1858) [26]
Merefield Ground Rochdale North (1860) [27]
Milnrow Road Rochdale North (1876) [28]
Moss Lane Manchester Manchester Cricket Club (1844–1846) [29]

Leicestershire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Barker's Ground Leicester North (1836–1846)
Midland Counties (1843)
[30]
Ratcliffe College Cossington Leicestershire Cricket Board (2002) [31]
Tyler's Ground Loughborough North (1875) [32]

Lincolnshire

Middlesex

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Artillery Ground Finsbury England (1773–1777) [33]
Lord's Middle Ground St John's Wood B Aislabie's XI (1811)
Lord F Beauclerk's XI (1812–1813)
[34]
Lord's Old Ground Marylebone Middlesex (pre-county club) (1787–1796)
Marylebone Cricket Club (1789–1809)
[35]
Orleans Club Ground Twickenham Orleans Club (1878–1883) [36]
Royal Air Force Sports Ground Uxbridge Combined Services (1964) [37]
W Fennex's New Ground Uxbridge Middlesex (pre-county club) (1790) [38]
Wembley Park Wembley Wembley Park Cricket Club (1896) [39]
White Conduit Fields Islington White Conduit Club (1786) [40]

Norfolk

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
New Ground Norwich Norfolk (pre-county club) (1834–1836) [41]
Old Buckenham Hall Attleborough L Robinson's XI (1912–1921) [42]
Racecourse Ground Swaffham Earl of Winchilsea's XI (1897) [43]

Northamptonshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Hatton Park Wellingborough United North of England Eleven (1874) [44]
Racecourse Ground Promenade Northampton United North of England Eleven (1872) [45]

Northumberland

Nottinghamshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Brackenhurst Cricket Ground Southwell Gentlemen of Southwell (1846) [46]
Forest New Ground Nottingham Nottingham (1827–1837) [47]
Meadow Road Beeston Gentlemen of the North (1870) [48]
West Park West Bridgford Sir J Cahn's XI (1932–1935) [49]

Oxfordshire

Rutland

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
The Park Burley-on-the-Hill England (1790–1793)
Old Etonians (1791)
Earl of Winchilsea's XI (1792–1793)
[50]

Shropshire

Somerset

Staffordshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Burton-on-Trent Cricket Ground Burton-on-Trent North (1840–1841) [51]

Suffolk

Surrey

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Aram's New Ground Walworth Surrey and Middlesex (1797)
Lord F Beauclerk's XI (1802)
[52]
Cheam Cricket Club Ground Cheam Surrey Cricket Board (1999–2001) [53]
Epsom Down Epsom Epsom Cricket Club (1816–1819) [54]
Guildford Bason Merrow Down Surrey (pre-county club) (1774) [55]
Holt Pound Wrecclesham Surrey (pre-county club) (1791–1809) [56]
JW Hobbs Ground
(Barclays Bank Ground)
Norbury CI Thornton's XI (1888) [57]
Laleham Burway near Chertsey Surrey (pre-county club) (1773–1779)
Chertsey Cricket Club (1778)
[58]
Moulsey Hurst West Molesey Surrey (pre-county club) (1788–1806) [59]
Royal Military Academy Ground near Camberley Army (1938) [60]
St Ann's Ground Barnes Lyric Club (1890) [61]
The Burys Godalming Godalming Cricket Club (1821–1825)
Surrey (pre-county club) (1828–1830)
[62]
Wimbledon Cricket Club Ground Wimbledon Surrey Cricket Board (1999) [63]

Sussex

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Manor Ground Bexhill-on-Sea Earl de la Warr's XI (1896) [64]
Midhurst Cricket Ground Midhurst Sussex (pre-county club) (1830) [65]
Petworth Park Petworth Sussex (pre-county club) (1824–1826) [66]
Prince of Wales Ground Brighton Brighton Cricket Club (1791–1792) [67]
Sheffield Park near Uckfield Lord Sheffield's XI (1881–1896) [68]

Warwickshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Aston Park Birmingham North (1861) [69]
Parr and Wisden's Ground Leamington Spa North (1849–1850) [70]

Westmorland

Wiltshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Perriam Downs Ludgershall T. A. Smith's XI (1787)
Hampshire (pre-county club) (1788–1792)
Hampshire and Surrey (1790)
[71]
W. H. Laverton's Ground Westbury W. H. Laverton's XI (1890) [72]

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

Official name (known as) City or town County side/use span Ends/notes Ref
Army Ground Catterick Garrison Combined Services (1954) [73]
Centre Vale Todmorden United North of England Eleven (1874) [74]
Darnall New Ground Sheffield Sheffield and Leicester (1826)
Yorkshire-Nottinghamshire-Leicestershire (1828)
Sheffield Cricket Club (1828–1829)
[75]
Ferham Park Rotherham North (1880) [76]
Hyde Park Ground Sheffield Sheffield Cricket Club (1830–1852)
Yorkshire (pre-county club) (1833–1853)
[77]
Mount Pleasant Batley T Emmett's XI (1883) [78]
Victoria Ground
(Royal Park)
Leeds United North of England Eleven (1872) [79]

† = Defunct venue

Domestic grounds in Wales

Glamorgan

Other Welsh counties

See also

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External links

Further reading

  • H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
  • Chris Arnot, Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds: The Hallowed Homes of Cricket That Will Never See Another Ball Bowled, Aurum, 2011
  • Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
  • Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
  • Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various editions