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Hazel Grove Football Club was founded in 1957 and play their home games at Torkington Park. The club was taken over by new management in 2014 and plays in the Manchester Saturday Morning Football League. Richmond Rovers JFC is a junior football club based opposite the high school on Jacksons Lane.
Crown green bowls (or crown green) is a code of bowls played outdoors on a grass or artificial turf surface known as a bowling green. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The sport's name is derived from the intentionally convex or uneven nature of the bowling green which is traditionally formed with a raised centre known as the crown.
Full name: Grand Central Pools: City: Stockport, United Kingdom: Opened: 1993 (pools) 2001 (fitness suite) Home club(s) Stockport Metro Swimming Club: Main pool; Length: 50 m (160 ft) Width: 20 m (66 ft) Depth: 0–2 m (0.0–6.6 ft) Lanes: 8: Operated by Life Leisure on behalf of Stockport Sports Trust
The Cale Green Ground was donated, along with the adjacent Cale Green Park, by Henry Bell, the former Mayor of Stockport. The cricket ground is one of the largest in the borough at 135 yards wide and 130 yards long, and the site also accommodates a lacrosse pitch, two bowling greens, the pavilion and a war memorial.
Attached to the club is a crown green bowling section which runs several teams in local bowling leagues. [110] Leigh has two cricket clubs: Leigh Cricket Club play in the ECB Premier League Liverpool Competition, [111] and Westleigh Cricket Club, [112] have two senior and 4 junior teams playing in the Greater Manchester Cricket League. [113]
West Heaton Bowling, Tennis and Squash Club, established in 1873, has six all weather tennis courts, two squash courts and a bowling green. Heaton Moor Golf Club, founded in 1892, is an 18-hole relatively flat, tree lined course set in a conservation area.
Stockport Lacrosse Club is a lacrosse club based in Davenport, Greater Manchester, a suburb of Stockport. The club was established in 1876 and is the oldest lacrosse club in England. Stockport currently field both men's and women's lacrosse teams as well as running respective junior programmes. The club have been based at Cale Green Pavilion in ...
The Cheshire Lines Committee ran the Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway which serviced Portwood and Stockport Tiviot Dale railway station. Portwood to the east of the town centre, alongside the River Goyt, was the location of many of Stockport's mills, and Vernon Mill was adjacent to the Palmer Mills .