NEHL - A cricket ground opened on the main road between Esh Winning and Cornsay in 1905, on previous farmland. A piece on the Durham County Advertiser from May 1905 notes the cricket pavilion and ground was opened around the 20th May 1905. It was opened by The Rev E J Beech. The pavilion is "a wooden structure, and has two rooms, one for the visitors, and the other for the home club. It looks over on to a well-trimmed lawn, on which the matches will be played". It was from then the home ground of Esh Winning Institute CC.

The ground is still in use.