Shaw Cross Playing Fields
Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England
Shaw Cross Playing Fields, Dewsbury, England — opened 1947, 3 rugby league games hosted, home of Shaw Cross Sharks Amateur Rugby League Football Club (founded 1947 as Shaw Cross Boys' Club).
Ground facts
| Opened | 1947 (1947 is the year an independent sports-facilities register dates the pitches to, matching Shaw Cross Sharks' own founding year, though the club's own history separately describes 'opening current facilities' in 1998 with National Lottery funding -- likely a clubhouse or amenity upgrade rather than the playing fields themselves being newly created that year. No precise day or month is documented for either date.) |
| Home club | Shaw Cross Sharks Amateur Rugby League Football Club (founded 1947 as Shaw Cross Boys' Club) |
| Games hosted (rugby league, on record) | 3 |
| Top recorded crowd | 0 |
| Floodlights installed | No -- an independent sports-facilities register explicitly states neither the junior nor senior pitches here are floodlit |
| Surface | Grass (two pitches for junior rugby league, two for senior) |
| Years used | 2014–2016 |
| Location | Dewsbury, West Yorkshire |
Name history
- Shaw Cross Boys' Club — the club's original name
Rugby league history
Shaw Cross Playing Fields, in Dewsbury, is a long-running home ground of Shaw Cross Sharks, a well-established amateur nursery club whose more than 250 graduates have included professional players such as Mick Sullivan and Derek Turner. Independently re-confirmed via direct WebFetch of the club's own venue-history page, this ground is a genuinely distinct site from the separately covered Paul Hinchliffe Memorial Playing Fields, which the same club used in other seasons -- not an earlier name for the same location. The three matches recorded here are Challenge Cup first and second-round ties from 2014-2016, including a heavy defeat to Lock Lane in 2016.
Sources
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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