| Location
| Address
| Date
| Notes
|
Alnwick |
St James Park |
1952 |
Alnwick, St James Park 1952 NCU |
| Alverthorpe |
Football Field |
1899 |
Alverthorpe Sports on the football field, started 1899 included 1 & 2 miles handicap races. |
| Ascot |
|
1869 |
|
| Avonmouth |
Avonmouth Gardens? |
1869 |
Avonmouth - Avonmouth Bicycle Challenge Cup meeting 22nd July 1869. Avonmouth Gardens? |
| Barnsley |
Shaw Lane |
1895 |
Barnsley Shaw Lane Barnsley Cricket and Athletics Club 1922 and Atletic News 22 April 1895 |
| Barnsley |
Wortley Cricket Club |
1886 |
Wortley Cricket Club Sports, Oldfield Lane, Wortley 1886 |
| Barnstable |
|
1910 |
Barnstable Sports Revived in 1910 |
| Bath |
Bath Liberal Club and Bath Cycle Club |
1952 |
|
| Beaumont College |
Windsor Eton? |
|
|
| Beccles |
Benacre sports |
1930s |
D Horn book |
| Belper |
|
1869 |
Belper Wakes velocipede race |
| Birkenhead |
Wirral Agricultural Society |
1869 |
Birkenhead Park |
| Birmingham |
Harborne Football Ground |
1901 |
Lynwood Walk/Lordswood Road |
| Bishop Auckland |
Cockton Hill Bicycle Track |
1882 |
June 1882, Go as you please race, Durham County Advertiser June 2nd 1882 |
| Bishopsborough |
|
|
Bishopsborough CC annual meeting on grass |
| Blackley |
Cricket Club |
1892 |
The Field Aug 6 1892 |
| Bonnybridge |
|
1953 |
|
| Bradford |
Peel Park |
1870 |
|
| Bridgnorth |
Love Lane |
1889 |
Bridgnorth Cycling Club, track at Love Lane crowd 2,500 2nd Sept 1889 |
| Bristol |
Avonmouth Grounds |
1869 |
Bristol Mercury Aug 21st 1869 |
| Burton on Trent |
Horninglow |
1879 |
Cinder track |
| Bury St Edmunds |
Recreation Ground Cotton Lane |
1881-1890 |
Cinder track |
| Cambo |
Cricket Club |
1899-1920 |
Cambo Cricket Club August 16th 1913 |
| Cambridge |
Waterbeach |
1930s |
Waterbeach & District Horticultural Show August Bank 1933 D Horn |
| Caterham |
Dene Field, Church Hill |
|
Boneshaker 173 p40. Caterham Valley sports ground 1921 grass track |
| Chelmsford |
The Bishop of Colchester Grounds |
1899 |
Chelmsford Bishop of Colchester Grounds 1899. Essex County Cycling and Athletics Assoc |
| Chelmsford |
The Dog Track |
1934 |
The Dog track, Little Waltham. Chelmsford Cycling Club events. July 4th 1934 |
| Chester |
Southmoor Colliery |
|
Cinder track |
| Cirencester |
RAF Kemble |
1952 |
Cirencester RAF Kemble 1952 NCU |
| Cleckheaton |
|
1869 |
Cleckheaton Agricultural and Horticultural Show 24th July 1869 velocipede race |
| Codicote village |
|
1890 |
Frank Shortland on pneumatics 1890 ish |
| Congleton |
Capesthorne Park |
1886 |
Capesthorne Park Primrose League August 1886 8,000 spectators |
| Congleton |
Willow Row Ground |
1884 |
Congleton, Willow Row Ground, Congleton Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club athletic sports August 16th 1884. |
| Coventry |
Midland Athletics Club meet |
1878 |
5 1/2 laps to mile |
| Crediton |
|
1892 |
The Field Aug 6 1892 |
| Croydon |
Grass track racing Croydon & District CA |
1946 |
Boneshaker 191 p5 |
| Dartford |
Central Park |
1952-1955 |
1955 NCU year book.Dartford, Central Park, 6th Athletic and Sports meeting Aug 4th 1952 |
| Darwen |
Clarence Hotel |
|
|
| Devises |
Recreation Grounds |
1889 |
|
| Doncaster |
Agricultural Show |
1895 |
Doncaster Agricultural Show July 4th 1895 |
| Doncaster |
Maltby Miners Welfare? |
|
|
| Doncaster |
Wombwell Miners Welfare? |
|
GRASS Dorothy Hyman Stadium (now a go-kart track). |
| Doncaster |
Bentley Miners Welfare? |
|
|
| Dumfries |
Learmont |
1896 |
The Scotsman 20 July 1896 Cinder cycle track |
| Dundee |
Athletic Grounds |
1891-1895 |
Dundee Athletic Grounds Company Carolina Port 1891-1895 Developed as a fish factory. |
| Dunoon |
|
1900s |
Cinder track |
| Eckington |
Recreation ground |
1883 |
Eckington Recreation Ground Sports August 4th 1883 |
| Edinburgh |
Hawkhill |
|
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_P/0_photographers_wane_sports_1_powderhall_racing_1_when.htm |
| Epworth |
North Derbyshire Miners Welfare? |
|
|
| Evesham |
Evesham Wanderers Ground |
1894 |
Worcester Chronicle 19 May 1894 |
| Evesham |
Evesham Show |
1869 |
|
| Exeter |
St James' Park |
1890s |
In the 1890’s grass track racing was held in Exeter in St James’s Park organised by Exeter Rovers. |
| Exmouth |
Exmouth Cycling and Sports Club |
1929 |
|
| Galashields |
Netherdale |
1937 |
Galashiels Netherdale, July 1937 Scottish grass track champs |
| Gildersome |
Dewsbury |
1869 |
Gildersome Agricultural Show velocipede race 21 Aug 1869 Dewsbury Reporter |
| Glasgow |
Alexandria Athletic |
1870s |
|
| Glasgow |
New Kelvinside Race and Recreation Ground |
1869 |
New Kelvinside Race and Recreation Ground, Maryhill Road April 3rd 1869 |
| Glasgow |
Park Grove |
1869 |
Glasgow Park Grove Football Club sports, Trinidad Park, Copeland Road, Govan 23rd August 1879. |
| Gosforth |
High Gosforth Park |
1883 |
About a mile North of the old Gosforth Cycling Track, Sporting Life 7 Aug 1883 |
| Grangemouth |
Grangemouth Football & Cricket Clubs? |
1889 |
The first Grangemouth Football and Cricket clubs was held on July 6th 1889 and there were two bicycle handicap races over one and two miles. |
| Grays |
Grays Town FC Essex |
1894 |
Gravesend and Northfleet Standard 13 Oct 1894 |
| Haborne |
Football Ground |
1901 |
Lordswood Road B17 0LS ref [211] |
| Halifax |
Cattle Showground |
1869 |
28th August 1869 |
| Harrow |
Headstone Manor Recreation Ground |
1952 |
Harrow, Headstone Manor Recreation Ground, NCU 1952 |
| Hartford |
Cricket Club |
1886 |
Hartford Cricket Club Aug 1886 |
| Haslingden |
|
1874 |
Haslingden athletic club May 5th 1874, 1 mile bicycle race |
| Haslingdon |
Rossendale |
1869 |
Haslingdon, Rossendale? 2nd annual athletics festival Aug 7th 1869 |
| Haslington |
Haslington Crewe CW1 5RD |
1877 |
1869 to 1877 grass. Whit Saturday 1877 Cricket field Bent Gate |
| Hemsworth Colliery |
Fitzwilliam |
1922 |
1955 NCU year book |
| Hitchen |
Butts Close |
|
1955 NCU year book |
| Holbeach |
Carters Park |
1952 |
|
| Hoylake races |
William Balls Stanley Hotel |
1869 |
Hoylake races Liverpool Mercury April 9th 1869 |
| Hucknall |
Foresters Cricket Ground |
1883 |
Hucknall Foresters Cricket Ground 23rd July 1883 |
| Huntley |
|
1869 |
Huntley, Grand Floral and Agricultural Show |
| Ilkeston |
Cossall Colliery |
1881 |
Cossall Colliery, Ilkeston 1887 N&V 216 |
| IoM Douglas |
Derby Castle Pleasure Grounds |
1877 |
Derby Castle Pleasure Grounds June 1877 |
| IoW Ryde |
Partlands Ground |
|
Grass track 7 laps/mile |
| Johnstone |
|
1869-1894 |
Johnstone, West of Scotland Athletic Sports July 17th 1869 |
| Kidderminster |
Spennels House |
1869 |
Birmingham Daily Gazette 30 July 1929 Cinder track for employees of Brintons carpets |
| Langport |
|
1929 |
Hill House, Langport. Langport Amateur Athletic Association sports grass 1894. Langport Races on the North Street Moor. The race meeting on August 24th 1869 advertised two velocipede races, however only one velocipede and rider put in an appearance and the races were abandoned. |
| Langton |
Langton Recreation Ground |
1876 |
|
| Langwith Notts |
Cricket Club |
1907 |
Bicycle track made at considerable expense 13 jul 1907 |
| Leeds |
Allerton Bywater |
1912 |
Banked cinder track around cricket pitch 29 July 1912 |
| Leeds |
Armley Cricket Ground |
1894 |
Armley CF & AC annual sports , Armley cricket ground May 1894 |
| Leeds |
Cardigan Fields, Kirkstall Road |
1881 |
Cardigan Fields, Kirkstall Road, Leeds Grass track 352 yards around (in 1881) |
| Leeds |
Hunslet Union Cricket Club |
1881 |
Hunslet Athletic Sports festival, Hunslet Union Cricket Club, August 1881 |
| Leicester |
Country cricket ground |
1925-37 |
May 30th 1925 Leicester Royal Infirmary Sports NCU quarter and half mile local champs. August 1937 meeting and 1927 |
| Littleport Cambs |
Highfield |
|
1955 NCU year book |
| Liverpool |
Old Swan Road |
1869 |
Stanley Races, Near Cattle Market, Old Swan Road, Liverpool May 1869 |
| Livingston |
Pumpherston |
1896 |
|
| Lofthouse |
Cricket Club |
1899 |
Lofthouse Cricket Club 1899 included 2 bicycle races. |
| London |
Eltham Road Lee SE12 |
|
Boneshaker 187 p19 |
| London |
Hackney Wick |
|
|
| Long Bennington |
Royal Oak paddock |
1886-1894 |
Long Bennington Royal Oak paddock, 1886, 1894 |
| Loughborough |
Corinthians football field |
1931 |
Loughborough Corinthians football field NCU 1 mile scratch local champs Nottingham Journal June 1st 1931. |
| Loughborough |
Tylers Cricket Ground |
1869 |
Tyler’s cricket field near the railway station July 27th 1869 during an England cricket match |
| Lurgan |
Queens Park |
1901 |
Northern Whig 25 June 1901 Cinder track |
| Luton Hoo |
Radcliffe track |
1880 |
closed 1880 |
| Manchester |
Football Club, Whalley Range |
1888 |
Manchester Football Club Whaley Range 1888, |
| Manchester |
City Grounds |
1870 |
City Grounds Manchester 1870 |
| Mansfield |
Shirebrook Colliery Cricket Club |
1952 |
Mansfield, Shirebrook Colliery Cricket Club 1952 NCU |
| Mansfield Woodhouse |
|
1878 |
At the 1878 Mansfield Woodhouse garden show there was a bicycle race held in a field near the church (NG29 9JY). |
| March |
GER sports ground |
1930s |
Great Eastern Railways D Horn book |
| Masham |
Masham North Yorkshire |
1869 |
Masham Annual fair York Herald 25 Sept 1869 |
| Melksham |
|
1952 |
Melksham Avon Sports 1952 NCU |
| Mexbrough |
Ardwick Road |
1887 |
Cinder track |
| Mexbrough |
|
1869 |
Mexboro Feast June 21st 1869 cricket pitch? |
| Middlesbrough |
Marton Grove |
1914 |
|
| Monckton |
Monckton Colliery |
|
S71 4BE http://www.brierleyyorkshireengland.net/Monckton_Cycling_Club.html |
| Monmouth |
Drybridge House Drybridge Park |
1879 |
Monmouth athletic sports on August 28th 1879, 2 miles race |
| Morley |
|
1869 |
Morley Show August 6th 1869 velocipede race |
| Newark |
Kelham Road Cricket Ground |
1881-1895 |
Newark Bicycle Sports, Kelham Road Cricket ground September 1881, Newark Cricket Club |
| Newark |
Ransome & Marles Sports Club |
1952 |
Newark, Ransome & Marles Sports Club 1952 NCU |
| Newbury |
Cricket Ground |
1885 |
Sporting Life Aug 21 1885 Newbury CC meeting 19/8/1885 |
| Newcastle |
County track meet |
1895 |
Clarence CC Newcastle, County Track meet July 17th 1895 |
| Newport (Salop) |
Chetwynd Park |
1869 |
|
| Newton Abbott |
Recreation Ground |
1896-1952 |
The East and South Devon Advertiser Aug 29th 1896. NCU handbook 1952 |
| Newtown |
Montgomeryshire |
|
1955 NCU year book |
| Normanby Park |
|
1892 |
Aug 1892 |
| Northampton |
Victoria Gardens, Cattle Mrket Road |
1889 |
Opended 18th Sept 1896, Northampton Mercury Saturday 21 September 1889 |
| North Ormesby |
Cricket Club, Vicarage Field |
1914 |
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002976/19090724/159/0007 |
| North Shields |
Smiths Park |
1942 |
|
| North Woolwich |
Royal Gardens |
1869 |
North Woolwich Royal Gardens July 31st 1869 velocipede race |
| Northumberland |
Backworth Miners Welfare |
1946-1950 |
Backworth 1950 Harris and van vliet Welfare Sports 10,000 Morpeth Herald Aug 6th 1946 |
| Northwich |
Boston Hall |
1903 |
A 1 mile bicycle race was included in the Northwich Infirmary sports which were held at Boston’s Hall on August 3rd 1903. |
| Otley |
Cricket Field |
1880 |
Otley Athletics Festival, the Cricket field June 1880 |
| Pateley Bridge |
Bewerley Park |
1878 |
Pateley Bridge Bewerley Park 1878 |
| Peterhead |
McCrombies Yard |
1894 |
Boneshaker 194 p13 |
| Pitlochry |
Recreation Ground |
1884-1898 |
Annual Athletic sports and Highland Games 1884-1898 |
| Pontypool |
Pontypool cycle stadium to let |
1896 |
SW Daily News 9June |
| IoM Port Erin |
Castleton Flower Show |
1872 |
There was a bicycle race at Port Erin with the Castletown Flower Show on August 28th 1872. |
| Portsmouth |
Fratton Park |
|
|
| Prudhoe |
Athletic Ground |
1903 |
Cinder track 4 ltm Newcastle Daily Chronicle 20 July 1903 |
| Radstock |
South Hill, Radstock |
|
The Bristol Times and Mirror May 24th 1902 |
| Rainworth |
Colliery sports |
1950 |
http://alfbuttler.blogspot.com/2008/03/029-1950-track-leage.html |
| Ramsbottom |
Cricket Club |
1930s |
D Horn book |
| Rawnsley |
Cricket field |
1901 |
Lichfield Mercury 23 Aug 1901 Cinder track |
| Reading |
Caversham Cricket Ground |
1882 |
RG4 8TR Ref [135] |
| Redditch |
Windsor cricket grounds |
1891 |
Red Lane Worcester Chronicle 26 Sept 1891 |
| Retford |
Retford Athletic Sport |
1883 |
Retford Athletic sports 6 Aug 1883 |
| Rhos on Wye |
Walford |
|
Image in PicturesRaw path |
| Rochdale |
Enfield Farm |
1894 |
Rochdale Enfield Farm forming company Manchester Courier 6/6/94 p3 |
| Rossendale |
|
1869-1871 |
2nd annual athletics festival Aug 7th 1869 1869-1871 |
| Rossendale |
Whitworth |
1910 |
Whitworth football & cricket Club 4th annual sports 3rd Sept 1910 cinder track |
| Rothwell |
Rothwell Show |
1869 |
Rothwell Show 1869 velocipede race |
| Ryde |
Cricket ground |
1910 |
|
| Saddleworth |
Cricket Club |
1885 |
Saddleworth Cricket Club annual athletics festival, cricket ground, near Greenfield railway station July 15th 1882 |
| Sandhurst |
Royal Military College |
1881 |
Cinder path around cricket pitch |
| Seaham Harbour |
|
1890/91 |
Flower Show and bicycle sports August Bank Holiday 3rd Aug 1891 at Seaham Hall Grounds. Seaham BC May 1890 |
| Scunthorpe |
Messingham |
1952 |
Scunthorpe, Messingham 1952 NCU |
| Sheffield |
Ecclesfield sports |
1874 |
July 6 1874 |
| Sheffield |
Attercliffe Feast event |
|
|
| Sheffield |
Wadsley Bridge |
1893 |
Cycling 24 June 1893 |
| Shefford |
Biggleswade |
|
|
| Shirebrook |
|
1950 |
Shirebrook May 20th 1950 |
| Somercotes, Notts |
Somercotes cricket ground |
1906 |
Somercotes cricket ground near Alfreton June 1906 |
| Southsea |
|
1875 |
Southsea cinder the field 14 Aug 1875 |
| Spalding |
Deeping St James |
1952 |
Spalding, Deeping St James 1952 NCU |
| Stirling |
Bainsford Murchiston Park |
?1891 |
|
| Stretchwoth |
Stretchworth Park |
1897 |
Stretchworth Park 1897 Flower Show |
| Studeley |
Studeley Pleasure Grounds |
1869 |
Fountains Abbey Ripon |
| Swaffham |
Swaffham Rural Sports |
1869 |
Swaffham Rural Sports May 17th 1869 velocipede race |
| Swansea |
Central Jubilee Athletics Ground |
1897 |
|
| Swindon |
County Ground |
1929 |
Swindon County Ground 1929, Swindon Athletic Club meeting August Bank holiday 1929. |
| Taunton |
East Reach |
1934 |
In 1934, Taunton Athletic and Cycling Club held its sports at East Reach Rugby Ground. |
| Taunton |
Hyde Park |
1932 |
Taunton Athletic and Cycling Club August 25th 1932 meeting at Hyde Park stadium, home of Taunton RFC. |
| Tenby |
Heywood Lane Football Field |
1887 |
Tenby CC match race for S Wales championship |
| Thirsk |
County Ground |
1929 |
|
| Tiverton |
Somerville Park, Willand |
1921 |
Willand, Somerville Park Aug 18th 1921 |
| Towcester |
|
1895 |
Towcester Amateur Cycling Club Sports June 6th 1895 |
| Truro |
Stithians TR3 7BL |
1882 |
|
| Truro |
Cricket field |
1892 |
|
| Tyldesley |
Football Club |
1892 |
Tyldesley Football Club sports May 1892 Athletic News May 2nd 1892 |
| Uppingham |
|
1896-1912 |
Uppingham Sports 1896, 1900, 1912 |
| Wakefield |
Outwood |
1899 |
Outwood CC sports held in a field adjoining the Victoria Hotel, Outwood in Aug 1899 |
| Wakefield |
South Kirkby |
1950 |
South Kirkby, Wakefield, all cycling meeting in May 1950 |
| Wath nr Ripon |
Great West Riding Horticultural Show |
1869 |
Manor House field, Borough Market, September 4th 1869 velocipede race |
| Welbeck |
Welbeck Cricket Ground |
1914 |
Welbeck Cricket pitch Welbeck annual sports in July 1914 included a half mile bicycle race, 4,000 spectators |
| Welham |
|
1893 |
|
| Wellington |
|
1869 |
August 10th 1869 |
| Wells |
Wells Amateur Athletic Sports |
1902 |
The Bristol Times and Mirror May 24th 1902 |
| West Drayton |
Bicycle track |
1879 |
Cinder track |
| Whalley (Preston) |
|
1869/70 |
|
| Whittlesey |
British Legion Sports |
1930s |
D Horn book |
| Whitley Bay |
Park Hotel |
1900-1907 |
Rockcliff football field? |
| Whittingham |
Castle Inn Alnwick |
|
|
| Wimborne |
Cricket Club |
1869 |
|
| Wirral |
Wirral agricultural societies grounds |
1882 |
July 19th 1882 , Bidston , near Birkenhead. MEN |
| Wisbech |
Upwell sports field |
1930s |
D Horn's local track |
| Worcester |
Hallow Park |
1887 |
Worcester Chronicle 16 July 1887 |
| Workington |
Aspatria Recreation Ground |
1882 |
Mungo’s Park Cumberland CA7 3HZ 1882 cinder https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002275/18820505/091/0007 |
| Worksop |
Netherton Road ground |
1895 |
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| Wymondham |
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| Yarm |
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