Quay Meadow
Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Quay Meadow, Lancaster, England — opened 1897, 69 rugby league games hosted, home of None (Lancaster F.C., dissolved 1905).
Sourcing caveat: Little independent detail on Quay Meadow as a physical ground (capacity, facilities, exact site, what happened to it after 1905) could be sourced beyond its rugby league match history; this write-up is necessarily thin on those points.
Ground facts
| Opened | 1897 (1897 marks Lancaster's entry into the Northern Union and Quay Meadow's earliest recorded rugby league fixtures; the ground may have hosted the club's rugby union matches before that, but no date for that is confirmed here.) |
| Home club | None (Lancaster F.C., dissolved 1905) |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 69 |
| Top recorded crowd | 6,000 |
| Years used | 1898–1905 |
| Location | Lancaster, Lancashire |
Name history
- Quay Meadow — 1897-1905 (rugby league era)
Rugby league history
Quay Meadow, on St George's Quay in Lancaster, was the home ground of Lancaster F.C. through the club's short life in the professional/semi-professional ranks of the Northern Union. Lancaster — a rugby club formed in 1870 — joined the Northern Union in 1897 alongside Morecambe Bay neighbours Barrow, Ulverston and Millom, turned semi-professional in the Lancashire Senior Competition in 1901-02, and spent three seasons in the Northern Union's Second Division before leaving the league at the end of the 1904-05 season; the club was dissolved shortly afterwards. Rugby League Project's results archive records 69 games at Quay Meadow across this period, including Challenge Cup and Second Division fixtures against clubs such as Wigan, Widnes, Leeds and Huddersfield, plus promotion/relegation playoffs — one of which, a Barrow vs Tyldesley playoff in 1899/1900, drew 6,000 spectators, the ground's largest recorded crowd.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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