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unusual facts about Recreation Ground



Victor Munden

In a match in 1953 on the pitch at Bath where Bertie Buse's benefit match had ended in a single day just a week earlier he achieved both the best innings and match figures of his career, taking six for 33 in the second Somerset innings to follow four wickets for nine runs in the first innings: the figures of 10 for 42 were the only time he took 10 wickets in a match.


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1908 New Zealand rugby league season

A return match was played at Petone Recreation Ground, Petone on 12 September and was drawn 13-all in front of 4,000 spectators.

Bourne United Charities

Bourne United Charities owns Abbey Lawn, a recreation ground in the centre of Bourne, along with the Wellhead Park, which is a public park.

Cardiff Saracens RFC

The club's ground is at Roath Park Recreation Ground and their clubhouse (The Tavistock Hotel) is also based in the Roath District of Cardiff about 400 metres from Cardiff city centre.

Creigiau

Local amenities include a bilingual primary school, which teaches through the medium of both Welsh and English, a golf club, a small Tesco Express shop - which is also the Post Office, a Recreation Ground managed by village residents (home of local archery, cricket, football, petanque and tennis clubs), a GP surgery, and local pub called 'The Creigiau Inn'.

Gorleston F.C.

After a 2–2 draw at Brisbane Road and a 0–0 draw at the Recreation Ground (at which the club's record attendance of 4,473 was set), a second replay was held at Arsenal's Highbury Stadium, resulting in a 5–4 win for Leyton Orient, with Gorleston having been 4–1 down at one point in the match.

Hawkesbury Upton

Notable alumni of the Stallions' Recreation Ground include the likes of Bill Stephens, not to be mistaken for Liverpool F.C. great Jamie Stephens, and George Setterfield.

HM Prison Leicester

Leicester Prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service, and is situated immediately north of Nelson Mandela Park (formerly Welford Road Recreation Ground), a sign in which quotes Nelson Mandela: "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere".

Holt Pound

Instead it is the local recreation ground administered by Binsted Parish Council.

Horspath cricket club

Horspath Cricket Club is based at the Recreation Ground in Horspath Village, which is on the Oxford Road leading into Horspath from Cowley, Oxford, UK

Louis Powell

A ubiquitous figure in Bath sport, Louis Powell trophies are still competed for at Bath Cricket Club and Bath Golf Club at Sham Castle, and he was the first to broadcast cricket commentary on a hospital radio system at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, covering cricket from the Recreation Ground alongside Bill Andrews.

Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center

The recreation ground contained a football pitch and was in the area of ground between the Assembly Hall and Building D.

North Sheen Recreation Ground

Opened in June 1909 and extended in 1923, the recreation ground was originally part of an orchard belonging to the Popham Estate, owned by the Leyborne Pophams whose family seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire.

Oving, Buckinghamshire

The village is host to one of the oldest football cups the Oving Villages Cup, which started in 1889 and still persists today on the recreation ground on Bowling Alley.

Pitstone

Pitstone has a Non-League football team Pitstone & Ivinghoe F.C. who play at The Recreation Ground on Vicarage Lane.

River Bourne, Addlestone

Just before the confluence is the confluence of the Parley Brook that stems from the Goldsworth Park recreation ground.

Shire Country Park

It consists of Millstream Way following the course of the River Cole from Yardley Wood to Small Heath and includes the following sites: Scribers Lane SINC, Trittiford Mill Pool, The Dingles, Chinn Brook Recreation Ground, Sarehole Mill Recreation Ground, Moseley Bog LNR, Burbury Brickworks, The John Morris Jones Walkway, Cocksmoor BMX.

The Old Recreation Ground

The Old Recreation Ground was a football stadium, located in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent and home to Port Vale for almost 40 years.

Victoria Park, Cardiff

The park was created as a municipal recreation ground by Cardiff City Council through a city charter between 1897 and 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee marking her record sixty years on the throne.

Willesborough Dykes

There are few other places in East Kent with the same characteristics as the South Willesborough Dykes, other areas of grazing marsh are designated as the Sandwich Bay and Hacklinge marshes SSSI, Ash Level and South Richborough Pasture an SNCI, there are nature reserves at Gazen Salts recreation ground (Sandwich) and Monk's Wall nature reserve.

Wingrave

Around the recreation ground and in other parts of the village are many houses and cottages of varying sizes, constructed in Tudor Revival style, erected by Hannah de Rothschild in the 19th century.