The Old Recreation Ground
The Old Recreation Ground is a multi purpose in Hanley, United Kingdom that opened in 1913. Its recorded capacity is 20,000.
Key facts
The Old Recreation Ground is a multi purpose in Hanley, United Kingdom that opened in 1913. Its recorded capacity is 20,000. No current owner is recorded. The venue does not currently carry a sponsor name. Current tenants are Port Vale F.C., Port Vale F.C..
- Location
- Hanley, United Kingdom
- Type
- Multi purpose
- Capacity
- 20,000
- Opened
- 1913
- Status
- Demolished
- Current owner
- Not recorded
- Naming rights
- No current sponsor name
- Name changes
- 0
- Playing surface
- Natural grass
The Old Recreation Ground is at latitude 53.027267, longitude -2.1758, in Hanley, 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 | 53.027267 |
| Longitude | -2.1758 |
| City | Hanley |
| Region | Hanley |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Vale F.C. | Not mapped | Present | Current | Source |
| Port Vale F.C. | Not mapped | 1913 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2026 | venue_features | (created) | not set | 3472 | 2026-10 |
| 29 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 43544 | 2026-09 |
| 28 September 2026 | venue_roles | (created) | not set | 39980 | 2026-09 |
| 28 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_revid | not set | 1372222302 | 2026-09 |
| 28 September 2026 | venues | wikipedia_title | Old_Recreation_Ground | Old Recreation Ground | 2026-09 |
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: