The Sports Ground, Stompond Lane

The Sports Ground
Stompond Lane
Full name The Sports Ground, Stompond Lane
Location Stompond Lane, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Capacity 2000 (444 seated[1])
Tenants
Walton & Hersham F.C. (Isthmian League Division One South)[2], Walton Athletic Club[3]

The Sports Ground, Stompond Lane (also called Stompond Lane Sports Ground, but often just shortened to Stompond Lane) is a stadium located in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. It is where Walton & Hersham F.C. play their home matches[2] and it is also used by the Walton Athletic Club[3].

Structure

Stompond Lane consists of a football pitch surrounded by a running track. There is a brick grandstand on the north side, which contains 404 regular seats and 40 in the two directors' boxes.[1] The seats have to be accessed by stairways because the dressing rooms are beneath them.[4] On the opposite side of the pitch is a covered terrace and there is uncovered terracing surrounding the east side of the track.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b "Stompond Lane Track". runtrackdir.com. UK Running Track Directory. http://www.runtrackdir.com/details.asp?track=Walton. Retrieved 2009-06-15. 
  2. ^ a b "Stadium/Directions". waltonandhershamfc.org.uk. Walton & Hersham Football Club. http://www.waltonandhershamfc.org.uk/club/directions.php. Retrieved 2009-07-06. 
  3. ^ a b "General Information". waltonac.co.uk. Walton Athletic Club. http://www.waltonac.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=1&Itemid=7. Retrieved 2009-07-06. 
  4. ^ "Walton & Hersham FC". pyramidpassion.co.uk. Centre Circle Publishing. http://www.pyramidpassion.co.uk/html/walton___hersham.html. Retrieved 2009-08-30. 

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