VIDEO: Top 10 Abandoned Non League Stadiums

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We continue our look at abandoned non league grounds…

4) BUCKINGHAM ROAD (Aylesbury United)

They moved to Buckingham Road in the mid 1980s but in July 2006, the lease on the ground expired and forced the club to play outside the ground at Thame United, Leighton Town and Chesham United.

The stadium is still left abandoned, but obviously looks more derelict, overgrown and as the years have passed.

 

3) NENE PARK (Irthlingborough, Rushden and Kettering)

Nene Park was built in 1969, got renovated between 1995 and 1998, then closed in 2012.

It could accommodate 6,441 spectators, with 4,641 seated and 1,800 standing.

Irthlingborough Diamonds played in it between 1969 and 1992, before they merged with Rushden Town and became Rushden & Diamonds on 21 April 1992 where it continued to be their home.

Rushden went under, then became Kettering Town’s home for 18 months, though they left in November 2012 to play at Corby, due to the costs of running the ground.

It was left abandoned then was demolished in late February 2017 and lasted approximately two and a half months.

To this day fans are left extremely gutted at it being no longer.

Coventry City were considering playing there in 2012, but instead ground-shared with Northampton Town. Oh how the Sky Blues could do with a different home right now.

 

2) ROCKINGHAM ROAD (Kettering Town)

It was Kettering’s home between 1897 until 2011 and before the time of it’s closure, had a capacity of 6,264.

The lease ran out on the stadium and the club had to move out. They moved to Burton Park Wanderers’ Latimer Park the following year.

Fans hoped the club would return to Rockingham Road, but was demolished in 2007 ready for houses to be built on the site.

 

1) THE FIRS (St Leonards and Hastings Town)

St Leonards moved to the ground, from Pannel Lane, in 1993 but it was previously home of Hastings Town until they moved into the Pilot Field next door after the demise of the old Hastings United.

During 1993, The Firs was redeveloped so they could play in the Sussex County League. More improvements were made in 1996, to allow the club to enter the Southern League, after being rejected.

The club folded and then the ground was used by St Leonards Social, who play in the East Sussex League, however the ground became disused and had graffiti in parts. Uniquely though, an astroturf pitch was put up where the pitch used to be so that no club can again used it. All of this, yet there is a stadium right next door.

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