List of Bedfordshire County Cricket Club grounds

Bedfordshire County Cricket Club was established on 3 November 1899; prior to that a county club had existed before, with Bedfordshire competing in the first Minor Counties Championship in 1895. It has since played minor counties cricket from 1900 and played List A cricket from 1967 to 2005, using a different number of home grounds during that time. Their first home minor counties fixture in 1895 was against Hertfordshire at Bedford School, while their first home List A match came 72 years later against Northamptonshire in the 1967 Gillette Cup at Wardown Park, Luton. Bedfordshire have played the majority of their minor counties fixtures at Bedford School and Wardown Park.

The eighteen grounds that Bedfordshire have used for home matches since 1895 are listed below, with statistics complete through to the end of the 2014 season.

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Bedfordshire County Cricket Club when it was permitted to play List A matches. These grounds have also held Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		List A			Minor Counties Championship			MCCA Trophy
Wardown Park	Luton	26 April 1967 v Northamptonshire	4 May 2005 v Sussex	13	6 August 1906 v Buckinghamshire	8 June 2014 v Suffolk	127	9 June 1996 v Oxfordshire	20 June 2004 v Cornwall	4	[1][2][3][4][n 1]
Goldington Bury	Bedford	25 May 1968 v Hampshire	26 June 1991 v Worcestershire	3	11 August 1967 v Hertfordshire	27 July 2003 v Northumberland	32	31 May 1998 v Surrey Cricket Board	25 June 2000 v Leicestershire Cricket Board	3	[5][6][7][8][n 2]
Lancot Park	Totternhoe	only match: 29 August 2001 v Derbyshire Cricket Board		1	17 July 1994 v Northumberland	8 July 2012 v Northumberland	14	21 July 1996 v Wales Minor Counties	4 May 2014 v Norfolk	8	[9][10][11][12]

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Bedfordshire County Cricket Club in Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches.

Name	Location	First	Last	Matches	First	Last	Matches	Refs
		Minor Counties Championship			MCCA Trophy
Bedford School Ground	Bedford	5 August 1895 v Hertfordshire	21 July 2013 v Hertfordshire	181	6 June 1993 v Cambridgeshire	17 May 2009 v Cumberland	5	[13][14][15][n 3]
Dunstable Grammar School Ground	Dunstable	19 August 1895 v Wiltshire	27 June 1905 v Northumberland	6	–	–	0	[16][17]
Bell Close	Leighton Buzzard	29/30 July 1891 v Buckinghamshire	31 July 1994 v Cumberland	5	–	–	0	[18][19]
Bedford County School Ground	Bedford	21 June 1900 v Staffordshire	24 June 1914 v Suffolk	13	–	–	0	[20][21]
Luton Hoo Park	Luton	17 August 1900 v Oxfordshire	9 August 1901 v Oxfordshire	2	–	–	0	[22][23]
Bedford Modern School Ground	Bedford	10 June 1901 v Surrey Second XI	20 July 2014 v Cambridgeshire	10	only match: 9 May 2010 v Oxfordshire		1	[24][25][26]
WH Allen's Sports Ground	Biddenham	only match: 21 July 1920 v Norfolk		1	–	–	0	[27][28]
Goldington Road	Bedford	only match: 9 June 1930 v Buckinghamshire		1	–	–	0	[29][30]
Southill Park	Southill	22 July 1972 v Hertfordshire	13 August 2000 v Cambridgeshire	20	18 June 1989 v Hertfordshire	9 June 2002 v Hertfordshire	4	[31][32][33]
Bull Pond Lane	Dunstable	24 July 1972 v Shropshire	9 June 1991 v Staffordshire	15	–	–	0	[34][35]
Vauxhall Motors Ground	Luton	15 July 1973 v Cambridgeshire	12 July 1975 v Cambridgeshire	3	–	–	0	[36][37]
The Pyghties	Henlow	23 July 1973 v Shropshire	5 July 1998 v Northumberland	22	only match: 4 June 1989 v Cambridgeshire		1	[38][39][40]
Grange Lane	Cople	–	–	0	19 May 1991 v Buckinghamshire	18 May 2014 v Hertfordshire	4	[41][42]
The Vale	Westoning	4 June 2000 v Northumberland	15 July 2001 v Staffordshire	2	16 June 2002 v Essex Cricket Board	18 May 2008 v Shropshire	4	[43][44][45]
Ampthill Park	Ampthill	9 June 2013 v Buckinghamshire	17 August 2014 v Lincolnshire	2	14 May 2006 v Lincolnshire	8 May 2011 v Hertfordshire	6	[46][47][48]