Percy Main, Percy Park Rugby Football Club

HER Number

15789

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Percy Main, Percy Park Rugby Football Club

Place

Percy Main

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Sports Ground

Site Type: Specific

Rugby Football Ground

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

One of the earliest rugby clubs to form in Tyne and Wear. Formed in 1872 at Percy Main Cricket Club's grounds. Cricket was the first game to adopt and develop its own private grounds and so it was at cricket grounds that many rugby and football clubs formed. Groundsharing was common. The Northumberland Rugby Union was formed in 1880.

Easting

433880

Northing

567240

Grid Reference

NZ433880567240

Sources

Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 16