Belford has featured its own football club since 1886, though this one was abandoned by 1888. A club of the same name was revived in the early 1890s (though the current football club harks to the original date noted). The original ground is not known, or if they were actually nomadic and rented several grounds around the village. I've unfortunately found no reference. In 1929, there is reference to the Belford football ground being close to the Dinning's Plantation, which is likely this ground or one slightly south. Aerial photographs provide no clues. There is fleeting hints the ground could have been the old cricket ground near Belford Station, behind the old clay pits and on the current site of those large tanks on the west side of the railway.

This site is named The Meadows, and is first formally captured in the 1960s Ordnance Survey. Aerial photography from 1948 suggests this field was still in use as farmland immediately after WWII. A piece in the Berwick Advertiser of 1962 states the club set up a proposal to buy The Meadows to provide a playing field for themselves and the village at a cost of over £1000. This was accepted, and four acres were bought from a local landowner. At this time the club were in the North Northumberland League Division I, and were middlers in the league with little success or dismay. There was however constant issues with clinging onto players who turned up despite being in a healthy financial position - much down to the supporters club rather than attendances.

There was a small pavilion in the 1960s on the north side of the ground, and later improvements were added in the 1970s and 80s and the ground is still well trodden today.