Station Road Ground is a

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ground located off Station Road in Whalley,

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. The ground is bordered to the north and west by other sports fields, while to the south it is bordered by residential housing and to the east by the Ribble Valley Line and

Whalley railway station Whalley railway station serves the village of Whalley in Lancashire, England. The station lies on the Ribble Valley Line north of Blackburn. The station has two platforms, slightly offset from each other. It is unstaffed, with shelters on e ...

. The ground was established in 1860, five years after the founding of Whalley Cricket Club. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1864, when Whalley played an

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. Three years later the ground held the only first-class match to be played there, between

played

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in what was the first

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. Yorkshire won this first fixture by an innings and 56 runs, with Lancashire's

Arthur Appleby Arthur Appleby (22 July 1843 – 24 October 1902) was an English first-class cricketer. A left arm round arm medium pace bowler and left-handed batsman, he played 58 matches for Lancashire as an amateur between 1866 and 1887 and in 81 first-cla ...

taking the first

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in the match with 6/62 in Yorkshire's first-innings, but he surpassed by Yorkshire's George Freeman who took 7/10 in Lancashire first-innings and 5/41 in their

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. The ground is still used by Whalley Cricket Club.

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