Town Cricket Club Ground
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The Town Cricket Club Ground on Argyle Street in Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 hosted four first class matches from 1875 to 1879.
North and South England XIs clashed on three occasions while Yorkshire CCC played Surrey CCC in a county fixture in the last match held there.

The great W.G. Grace scored 126 for the United South of England Eleven in 1876 while Ephraim Lockwood
Ephraim Lockwood
Ephraim Lockwood was an English first-class cricketer, and captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in the 1876 and 1877 seasons.-Life and career:...

 scored centuries for the North on two occasions. The prolific Tom Emmett took 8 for 54 for the North of England in 1875. The ground was closed in 1897 and developed by the railway.
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