Belford have featured their own cricket club since at least the 1870s, however it has been difficult to trace back to an origin ground at this stage. A first potential mention of this ground on Station Road comes in 1886, when a team faced Berwick for the opening of a ground in the July. Further clues are provided by the 1890s Ordnance Survey map, which features a small pavilion-like building on the south end of the boundary which remains when the ground is labelled for cricket in the 1910s. This pavilion may well be mentioned in a piece from the Alnwick Guardian of 24/12/1887, reporting on a concert held to raise funds for the club.

"Besides their usual expenses the club were anxious to raise funds to erect a pavilion for the accommodation of their friends and visitors to their ground and for this purpose more especially was this their first concert for the season given".

It was noted in a separate piece from the same newspaper on 26/05/88 that the cricket ground was now "enclosed with a strong and substantial rail fence, and a wooden pavilion has been erected at the south side under the shade of the hedge. The members, senior and junior, of the club are going in for practice several nights every week".

The club played all sorts of opposition here. Amble, Berwick, Newcastle Garrison, Carr Ellison's XI (presumably a team from Powburn), Galashiels, North Eastern (I think of Gateshead) and Coldstream are all noted in 1889. They were not involved in any formal competition as such by this stage.

Interestingly, Belford FC also used this ground at least on occasion in the 1890s. The Northumberland Senior Cup was held here for a 1st round match against Berwick Rangers, with the away side winning 4-0. Another match is documented against Berwick GPO Athletic on the Easter Sunday of 1894.

The Belford Club is cited as one of the most promising in Northumberland at the turn of the century - in fact, "no club in the north of the county has better prospects of a successful career". They were financially backed by Mr Charles Perkins of Middleton Hall, and some professionals had even joined including a fellow named "Orange" from Nottingham.

Belford appear to have remained at Station Road until at least the 1890s. They played in the Northumberland League and a local Sanderson Cup, in which they faced Berwick regularly. The redevelopment of the ground as agri-industrial appears to be relatively recent - perhaps within the past 35 years.