Recreation Ground (Whitehaven)
Recreation Ground is a stadium in Whitehaven, United Kingdom that opened in 1948. Its recorded capacity is 8,603.
Key facts
Recreation Ground is a stadium in Whitehaven, United Kingdom that opened in 1948. Its recorded capacity is 8,603. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Whitehaven RLFC.
- Location
- Whitehaven, United Kingdom
- Type
- Stadium
- Capacity
- 8,603
- Opened
- 1948
- Status
- Active
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Natural grass
Recreation Ground is at latitude 54.539722, longitude -3.584167, in Whitehaven, United Kingdom. The marker is drawn from the recorded coordinates. The building outline appears here once OpenStreetMap footprint geometry is available for this venue.
Data table for this chart
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Latitude | 54.539722 |
| Longitude | -3.584167 |
| City | Whitehaven |
| Region | Whitehaven |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| OpenStreetMap object | Not recorded |
| Footprint geometry | Not yet exported by the pipeline |
Technology
| Feature | Recorded as | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural grass | Wikipedia infobox | Source |
See the venue technology guides for how these work.
Naming rights
No naming history is recorded for this venue.
Ownership and operation
No ownership or operator rows are recorded for this venue.
Tenants
| Tenant | Competitions | Period | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehaven RLFC | Not mapped | 1948 to present | Current | Source |
Recorded changes
5 changes to this venue have been recorded by the monthly pipeline runs.
| Date | Table | Field | From | To | Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 November 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 4232 | 2026-11 |
| 5 November 2026 | venues | capacity | 7500 | 8603 | 2026-11 |
| 5 November 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372224237 | 2026-11 |
| 5 November 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Recreation_Ground_(Whitehaven) | Recreation Ground (Whitehaven) | 2026-11 |
| 22 October 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 56755 | 2026-10 |
Sources and licenses
Every ownership, naming and sponsorship row on this page carries the URL it was derived from. The site as a whole is built from these sources:
- Wikidata: CC0 1.0. Data from Wikidata, released under CC0 1.0 Universal.
- OpenStreetMap: ODbL 1.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0). See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
- Wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from Wikipedia, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Row-level sources used for this venue: