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14885

Last Updated:

21 Jun 2022

Cricket

Home Teams & Clubs:

Opened:

Closed:

1868

Open

Condition:

Philadelphia

Philadelphia Cricket Club

54.863360, -1.483843

https://sitelines.newcastle.gov.uk/SMR/14885

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1896.

There has been a ground on this site since the 1860s. The Ordnance Survey map from 1862 shows a non-descript parcel of land in the pit village, and was likely used for Cricket shortly after.

'Sketches of The Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham' T.H.Hair, published in 1844

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