Fifty years plus and still going!

Stockton & Hopgrove Cricket Club is now over 50 years old in its current format and is still going.After using grounds within the village at Stockton-on-the-Forest in the 1950`s the club moved to the Knavesmire & played most of its matches there in the 1960`s & 1970`s & early eighties.
After leaving the Knavesmire the club had the use of the facilities at Stockton Hall, back in the village.Unfortunately private ownership of the Hospital brought with it a massive building expansion plan and the village cricket club "lost" the use of the cricket ground at the end of the 1998 season.
For the 1999 & 2000 season the club has temporarily been playing its home fixtures on a Sunday at the Civil Service sports complex on Boroughbridge Road.The club will continue to play home fixtures there for the 2001 season.
Work has just commenced (Sat 14th Oct 2000) on the new cricket square which the club is going to use from the 2002 season at the new Hopgrove Playing Fields Association site on Malton Road.
See update 19/10/00 regarding work on the new ground