About Us
Our Vision
To be recognised as a valuable member of the local community by providing:
- Sustainable first-class sporting facilities, infrastructure, and coaching
- To become a community Hub facilitating local community development and regeneration
- A focus on the development of the youth of the community
Our Values
As a club & as individual members, we both value and take pride:
- In the way we treat and respect others as we would wish to be treated ourselves
- In our welcome to all visitors to our club.
- In our facilities
- In our standards of both hospitality and sporting competitiveness
- In the effort we dedicate to encouraging young people to participate in sporting activities
- In addressing the needs of the community as part of a local collaborative approach
We exist to improve the physical health, mental health and social skills of the local community. This is currently achieved through coaching, recreational, and competitive games for cricket, hockey and football.
We are also a community hub, providing services that engage, empower and enrich the local community. We are a founder member of Broadgate Community Connectors, a project that aims to bring together local faith, community and statutory organisations to address social issues in the community from this hub.
Our facilities include:
- Cricket square
- Cricket outfield
- Artificial Pitch with a new surface and shockpad in 2020
- Clubhouse with clubroom, bar, changing facilities and showers
- Car Parking
The facilities are leased from Preston City Council under a 99-year lease that commenced in February 1996.
Preston Cricket Club was established in 1821. Games were played on the Holm [now known as Penwortham Holme] which was an island at that time in the River Ribble.
The first recorded match on the ground was in 1870, when Preston played a United North of England Eleven.
This 1889 map shows Preston Cricket Ground for the first time.
The Sports Club hosted the Preston Guild Amateur Athletics Sports in 1882. The features of the Clubhouse are clearly visible, together with the Park Hotel in the background, now mostly obscured by trees.
Preston Grasshoppers began their playing years at Westcliff.
The Clubhouse is still recognisable in this photo believed to be from the 1880s, with the arched roof and clock still in place – although the clock is now square!
The two small peaks have long since disappeared without trace.
Preston Hockey is believed to date from 1903, although there is some evidence that it existed even earlier.
This date of this photo is unknown, but is titled Preston Field Hockey Team and is believed to date from the 1910s.
It appears to be an early use of PhotoShop technique – given the team is posed in front of the River Ribble with the Tram Bridge in the background.
In 1936, the ground held its first first-class match when Lancashire played Gloucestershire. From 1936 to 1939, the ground played host to 4 first-class matches involving Lancashire, the last of which saw them play Glamorgan. In 1952, Lancashire returned to the ground where they played a single first-class match against Glamorgan.
In this 1937 aerial photo, the cricket square can be picked out, with the tennis courts and pavilion on the right now replaced by the artificial pitch.
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"Preston Sports Club" is an operating title of Preston Sports Club Limited, a not-for-profit members’ private company limited by guarantee.
Company Registration Number: 10925660
Preston Sports Club Limited, South Meadow Lane, Preston, PR1 8JP