Lancashire & Yorkshire clubs
Not strictly falling i the range of 'Midlands' teams, but whilst researching for my second book,the Birth Of The Saddlers, I read dozens of northern newspapers from the 1880s and 1890s, and in doing so, I discovered the names of the grounds for a fair few teams so I thought Id post them up just in case anyone is interested in them.
Team Ground extra info etc
Sheffield Walkley Dykes Hall Road
Sheffield Exchange Quibells Field near Hyde Park cricket ground pitch was very uneven-hyde Park became a Drill ground,now gone.
Sheffield Surrey Surrey Ground,Queens Road at least one football ground on this lane
Sheffield Wild Myrtle Norfolk Park large park used by several small teams
Sheffield Clarence Myrtle Road probably also the Heeley ground
Sheffield Providence Norfolk Road next to Shrewsbury Lunatic hospital now houses
Sheffield Heeley "off Chesterfield Road" also used Brammall Lane for important games
Owlerton Penistone Road Sheffield
Sheffield Albion Abbeydale Road
Eckington Works the Marsh Farm ground
Attercliffe Brightside Lane now the car park of Sheffield Arena
Notts Club Consett ground,Queens Walk earliest of many grounds used by Notts County,now Notts Council HQ
Darwen Lower Chapel Knowle Heights meadow
Turton "field in front of Chetwynd Arms" this is actually 1.7 miles away in Chapeltown
Witton Star Knuzden
Griffin Star Primrose Hill ground
Manchester Association Greenheys street by that name exists but unable to identify field
Bolton Olympic High Street ground this description also fits Great Lever's 2nd ground
Great Lever 1.Green Lane/Manchester Road Woodside ground- now built over by the NORWEB national HQ building
2. High Street ground used post-1882, either behind the library or became the town park
Burnley FC Calder Vale before Burnden Park
Albion Rovers Burnley Lane Rec ground
Rossendale Dark Lane
Pyebank Shirecliffe Lane
Beeston (Derbys.) Chilwell
Notts Olympic Churchville ground field near to the church at Radford.They also used Gregorys Ground1894
Darwen Barley Bank ground long since built over with Hindle,Baron Streets,although street which ran
around perimeter of ground still there=Barlley Bank street
Rugeley Swifts (Staffs) Sandy Lane still there,became Lea Hall social club ground
Chasetown Rovers (Staffs) the Royal Exchange ground
Lichfield Leomansley Beacon Park ground large main park of the town still extant,used by many teams
Coventry Association Bull Field beleived to be fore-runner of Singers/Cov.City
Nottm Forest Park-side ground used in 1883 but usually used Gregory Ground at Lenton
Hinley (Leics) Holywell ground
Witton Rangers Griffin ground
Blackburn West End Lamack
Blackburn St.Andrews Cherry Tree ground
Blackburn Prince Albert Revidge Lane
Blackburn FA HQ Galligreave Street ground used by the Blacbkurn Association representative team
Blackburn Ramblers White Birk also used by Holy Trinity club
Preston Zingari Acregate Lane school used for their AGMs so may be venue of their home games
Darwen Rangers Tythbarn ground
Renton (Scotland) Whiteinch,Glasgow
Sheffield Park Grange Park Hill Lane
Nottingham Trent Meadow Willow ground
Staveley FC Staveley works cricket ground also used this venue in 1887
Bham Unity Gas Green Lane,Bordesley Green at 1887
Oldbury Bradwell (Staffs) Oldbury cricket ground near West Bromwich
1st Warwicks R.V. Pickwick cricket ground,off Ladypool Rd Sparkhill district of Birmingham
Hawthorn Villa Hamstead park Hamstead village between West Bromwich and Walsall
West Brom Christ Church Oak Road ground along with Salters,a foundling club for West Brom Albion in 1870s
Wycliffe FC (Bham) Edward Road,Edgbaston next to Calthorpe Park near Edgbaston cricket ground
Swarthmoor (Bham) Pebble Mill Road,Edgbaston Pebble Mill TV studios were built over football grounds