Wigginton Road Cricket Ground in York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

 is a former cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 ground. Its one and only first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 match was held in June 1890 between Yorkshire CCC and Kent CCC.

The ground was then known as the Yorkshire Gentlemen Cricket Club Ground, having been used by the Yorkshire Gentlemen from its inception in 1864 to 1931. Its name was changed in 1933 to Wigginton Road and was used from 1932 to 1966 by York Cricket Club

York Cricket Club

York Cricket Club is an English amateur cricket club based in York. The club became a founding member of the Yorkshire Cricket League in 1935. The club also has three teams in the York and District Senior Cricket League and one in the York Vale League. York Cricket Club won the ECB National Club...

. It had also been known as Clarence Street.

Wigginton Road Cricket Ground is now covered by York Hospital

York Hospital

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a National Health Service teaching hospital in York, England. The York Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was established on 1 April 2007....

Cricket

Yorkshire won the solitary first class match by 8 wickets after bowling Kent out for 46 in their first innings with three Kent players, somewhat bizarrely as it was the first innings of the game, denoted as "absent injured" when they failed to turn up for the game. Prince Albert Victor, Queen Victoria's son, attended the match. The ground was used for Yorkshire Second XI matches until the late 1950s but in 1966 the Hospital authorities which owned the site announced that it would be redeveloped. The final game took place on 3 September 1966.

Rugby

Financial problems in the early 1880s forced York Football Club

York City Knights

York City Knights Rugby League Club is a British professional rugby league club hailing from York. They play at the Huntington Stadium, situated to the north of York city centre...

out of the Yorkshire Gentlemen's Ground.